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I am not a pedant but why on TV and Radio can no conversation take place without the word 'Absolutely'?

Other irritating phrases such as '110 per cent'.

Educated people who cannot express themselves without saying 'um' or 'er' every fourth word.

Why does everything have to be 'mega mega exciting', why not just 'exciting'?

Why don't so called experts not know there is no such word as 'hieroglyphics'.

I could write several more, but let's have your 'nightmares'

Have come to the conclusion the English Language is losing it's edge, and the standard of education is declining.
Is this due to texting etc?

Really? Is it just 'hieroglyphic'?

Here we go...

The standard of education is declining due to the upbringing of ... by ... who have no respect whatsoever for their elders and cannot be told what to do.

Therefore cannot be taught.

Thankfully I gave up watching TV a long time ago, but I still hear the garbage on radio.

I do totally agree, its like most people are either pretending to be a management sales executive by talking useless idioms and phrases or a complete imbecile that mashes words together to save brain power, init?.

Aside from the general trash-talk that most people seem to use, politicians seem to be good ones for it.

Just a few of my pet hates;

Grass roots (usually followed by 'campaign')
Austerity Measures
Percenters
Networking (when aimed at people just talking to each other)
At the end of the day
Oh, and most teenage speak

The list goes on and on.

Gone are the days when you were told 'theres a 't' in *insert word of choice here*', now its 'thats not even a word'. lol

I don't like it when words (especially acronyms) become used out of context so if you look at the sentance properly they no longer make any sense. Examples

GM Food - Genetically Modified Food - that works correctly but over time "GMs" became the term - as in "He had GMs for his tea" which is cobblers.

PIN number is another one - as the N stands for number so are we talking about a Personal Identification Number Number?

Yes, another is VIC check, vehicle identity check check.

Mph - miles an hour (somehow!)

Miles Per hour

How about people that use 'nauseous' when they should be using 'nauseated'.

Sorry wheels - yeah I know it stands for miles per hour it just always seems to be referred to as miles an hour
Baz

Another one is "can I axe you a question?" I even heard a radio presenter using it "last night I axed you a question" - turned off after that!

A single character is a "glyph", so I think OP's suggestion is that "hieroglyphs" is the correct pleural.

Certainly the use of hieroglyphic as a noun looks to have fallen from favour in academia.

White kids who talk patois, in Canada they call them "whiggers". The Jamaicans have their own speak so let them get on with it, no need for our indigenous crowd to start doing it, we have a perfectly robust language of our own. Just me on a rant. Absolutely.

Interesting. Cheers.