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I'm fed up with...
Posted by Vernier Caliper on 13 June 2009 - 10:51am.
...people who say 'meet with'.
What's wrong with 'meet'?
But if someone can tell me that 'meet with' is perfectly good English, and not just another unawanted borrowing from across the Atlantic, I'm prepared to divert my impotent rage to another utterly trivial bone of contention.
(Ooops - should have been entered in the 'annoying' thread down there. Mis-use of blog protocol get on anyone's wick, perchance? If someone In Power can move this - please do)
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I don't like it...
...but like many things we think are Americanisms, it started here while we dropped it and the Americans kept it. Leastways, Austen and Trollope etc is full of 'speak with' and 'meet with'.
'Visit with' still retains it's original meaning
in the US as well.
Does the same apply to 'Come with'?
Frequently used in Buffy and other American pop culture, as in, 'I'm off to patrol and stake a few vamps. Want to come with?'
I think that's just
the Whedonesque take on hipster Valley-speak. The language of the Buffyverse (if you will) is a thing of wonder.
I can see a distinction ...
... between 'meet' and 'meet with', and I've found it useful on occasion: 'meet' can be used for an initial encounter ("I hope to meet the love of my life one day.") and 'meet with' for a more formal meeting ("I shall be meeting with my solicitor on June 30th to discuss my claim for constructive dismissal.").
Can I get
We have moaned about "can I get" before but I still hate it.
new
I hate ,that's fucking hate Team GB to describe the British Olympic team. The BBC were the first people I noticed using this a few years after the USA started using it. Why do these fuckers do this?
Don't blame the BBC (this time)
The British Olympic Association themselves coined the name.
The official Olympic team website is at: www.olympics.org.uk/teamgb.aspx
If, as it says on their website
"Team GB is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team" ... then why isn't it called 'Team UK'? Just a thought.
Oops.
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I also hate
"UK plc" for economic discussions e.g. "Gordon Brown is MD of UK plc" God help us.
I'm all for language evolving.
The spelling of coruscating and the meaning of enormity are well overdue re-evaluation.
:-)