This trend is really driving me!

I can't say it's something I've ever come across tbh.

Slang, and regional dialects, among all social classes, may be either creative, or for solidarity with peers. I like vocabulary and pronunciations that are different from what I'm used to . I enjoy malapropisms too. However I do disdain usages that fail to make sense. The new use of 'So' to start an utterance and not as a synonym for 'therefore' is an example of language not changing but deteriorating.

ignore them . or say so what ?? who cares..

Most of the English language doesn't make sense, how words are spelt, using C for K sounds it's all very confusing, some letters are silent others are spelt one way but pronounced another way, it's no wonder the immigrants find it too hard to learn how to speak let alone how to spell..

I've not noticed this really. Perhaps it depends on where you live. There are so many variations in the Engllish language. Language changes over the years.

Bathsheba
I'm afraid that I don't mix with the hoi-polloi, only with people who know how to talk properly. Not street slang or embarrassing 'you was' 'down the pub' and glottal-stop type enunciation.

True sarah, but its still annoying.

Bathsheba. I quote, and my apologies to fellow Gransnetters over the border for any errors, the great Rabbie Burns
' O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us'.

Let’s hang !!!!!! Apparently means “spend time together”. Joan Collins on radio 2 this afternoon said she used to “hang out” with Paul Newman - in that context, perfectly acceptable, given that anything involving Paul Newman is delicious.

Am I the only gran who really hates “24/7”?

Bored of (instead of 'with')

No, I've not come across this. Perhaps it's in a particular area of the country.

Bear with.......

Who started the So thing?

Starting with "So,---" when the 'so' is irrelevant.

come with or go with really irritates me

Has anybody noticed a rapid " yeah yeah yeah". I think it might be from TV?

Also, " a thing" as in " I didn't even know that was a thing"

Bathsheba, I dislike cliches of all sorts. Most people are not creative about the language they use. Trendy cliches allow users to feel that they are friends with others who use the same cliche.

‘My bad’ , hate it hate it hate it!

Ooh I love pedants corner

Oh yes, I've come across that one too mummsymags

Stansgran, I'm not sure that it is exactly. From what I've read aposiopesis is a device whereby words are left off for dramatic effect, or because the speaker cannot complete their sentence due to any of a number of emotions, such as fear, anxiety, excitement etc., and leaves it hanging, or quickly moves onto another thought.

Some of the examples given could fit that description, while others are just fashionable contractions, nothing to do with emotions.

And yes I agree, as this thread progresses it is developing a rather 'pedants' corner' feel

Never heard of it.

Isn't this aposiopesis? Perhaps we should shift to pedant's corner and they can tell me if that's what it is.

When I was leaving for the shops my American houseguest said 'Shall I come with?'

.....and the letter “T” seems to be going the same way.....as in par’y (party), be’’er (better), ma’’er (matter)