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Lack Of Vocabulary In The Young

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mikey4444 | 13:35 Tue 12th Jan 2016 | ChatterBank
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I called into the local Tesco Opticians this morning, to make an appointment for my annual eye test. I was told by the young lady at the desk, that on a day I suggested in two weeks time ( my first available day off as it happens) she told me :

"We ain't got no appointments that day" !

When I gently suggested that what she might have meant is that they hadn't ANY appointments that day, she said ::

" I just told you that ! "

Whatever this rather silly young lady talks about in the Pub with her friends, am I expecting too much that Tesco could at least have taught how to deal with Customers just a little better ?
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For what it's worth, I actually agree with Mikey. If people aren't corrected, how do they learn? After all, isn't that what teachers do? If the young lady in question had given Mikey a bill that was totalled incorrectly with say £10 added, how many of you would have spoken up then?
14:01 Tue 12th Jan 2016
i think it's one of problems of getting older mikey, that's all. Kids tody have no discipline, cant talk properly, policemen look younger, the bands they listen to are rubbish, summers were longer and so on.
You corrected someone to their face?

I speak differently in public and in private...but sometimes odd words slip out without me thinking.

Lucky that's all she told you, what right do have to correct her?
When my brother died last year - a young girl at the wake called him a "cnnnnt"

I nearly died with embarrassment. One word I despise and loathe.

"I can't get no satisfaction" was not really sung by the youth of today
Lol FF...very true!!
Ain't has also been around since before I was born- "'
One of those young rappers here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E9NM4mwPrs
mikey, did you understand her? If you did then what is the problem? If you corrected my Language to my face I would have said something other than “I just told you that"
When dealing with the public, sometimes the odd slang, dialect or grammar irregularities do slip out- we're human too you know!

I'd be cheesed off if someone snottily tried to correct me.
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She was unprofessional and was there for my convenience, not the other way around.

But part of the point that I am making is that she seemed unaware that I was correcting her, as she didn't know what her mistake was in the first place.

Not sure why I shouldn't have corrected her....I did it gently after all.
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woofy...in that case, if you were my employee, you would shortly be looking for another job !
Because it's rude and belittling!!
"There never was no man nowhere so virtuous" (Chaucer, c. 1380) as mikey in trying to point this horrific use of English out.
"Not sure why I shouldn't have corrected her...."

Me neither. Feeling of superiority perhaps?
Jenny,
I use that word with a female friend (because I'm wacky!not) recently sent it to her by text unfortunately sent it to wrong person.
I'm astounded that you felt it was 'your place' to correct her.....however gently.
Although given your comment ///....and was there for my convenience, not the other way around/// perhaps I'm not.
If only they were all as literate and had as wide a range of vocabulary as this young lady:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Question1468046.html

To correct your own children is right and proper but an adult?? You would be looking down on them as a child and that is demeaning and embarrassing imo.
and mikey, if I was your employee, you’d be up before a tribunal!

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