[Closed] "May I have...." / "Can I get...."

Here, can you get..... a life....

Who cares

Anyone who says "Can I get..." in any establishment which isn't self service should be slapped.

I was in a non-chain coffee shop recently and the youth in front of me in the queue said to the barista.
"Can I get a hot chocolate and a cookie please?"
The barista replied
"No, I have to pass them to you".

I grinned heartily and tipped him well.

May I can have some more please.

Customer to waiter: Can I get a coke.

Waiter: No, that's my job, I'll bring one for you.

Edit: garg, too slow...

can I get a witness?

It’s a losing battle against ‘can I get’. I CRINGE everytime I hear it, but it’s part of the language now. Lazy, Americanised, moronic, but inevitable.

I grinned heartily and tipped him well.

Barrista ? Really ? or just the person who throws a cup of coffee together...

We all knows what happens to those that do not evolve.
Language has changed, even in the time since I was at school, like no way man it's changed.

Or as used to be said lots when I was a kid in school...

'Can I lend your rubber'?

-or-

'Borrow us your rubber'

Or as used to be said lots when I was a kid in school…

‘Can I lend your rubber’?

"Haven't got it on me, Dick" was the stock response.

Yeah, we've lost that one I think.

Thankfully, and perhaps this is because I 'don't get out much' these days, but we've passed peak 'get'.

I remember an old Girlfriend saying it 12 years ago and dying a little inside.

What's wrong with "please may I have"? I thought that was correct, and I'm someone who'd be happy to murder a friend who says "can I get".

It’s a losing battle against ‘can I get’. I CRINGE everytime I hear it, but it’s part of the language now. Lazy, Americanised, moronic, but inevitable.

Good for you on calling people out on it. Throw some shade on those bad boys. I'm hep to the jive daddy-o.

"Can I get?"
Wrong wrong wrong!

APF 🙁

Or as used to be said lots when I was a kid in school…

‘Can I lend your rubber’?

-or-

‘Borrow us your rubber’

Very common in Wales (or at least, the bits I used to frequent). IIRC "lend" and "borrow" are the same word in Welsh, hence the confusion in English.

Very common in Wales (or at least, the bits I used to frequent). IIRC “lend” and “borrow” are the same word in Welsh, hence the confusion in English.

That's one possible explanation, I guess. 😀

Giss!

Can I get

I can't stand it either, is it an Americanism?

"excuse me awfully, please may I have..." Enid Blyton circa 1950

"hi, can i get..." a lot of people circa 2019

and the problem is? and please don't ask "your" barista to tweet me the answer

"Regular" instead of "medium" does generate the urge to murder someone.

Oddly "can i get" doesn't really bother me. (But maybe that's because I'm not entirely sure it's "wrong" see 2a and 3a from Miriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get and what with "may i have" being no more correct either when what you clearly mean is "please bring me". You're not asking permission, nor is it a quiz (you may but i don't know, do you?) you're requesting an action.

Can i get [brought to me] - yes, here you go.
May i have [please] - you have permission, yes.

Any who.

Me and... On the other hand

"Me and..." is annoying but "like" irritates me more. I am, like, woah!

So this is like literally the millionth time this has been posted on here.

No one actually gives a shit.

It does grate a little, and may be grammatically incorrect, but it's perfectly clear what it means.

Anyway, I must go: my uncle Jack's off his horse.

Can I get grates a bit, but 'myself' and 'yourself', etc. grip my turds.

"Tracy and myself were in Starbucks the other day, and like she said to the Barrista, like 'can I get a skimmed milk cappafrappachoochoo' and then turned to me and said 'and for yourself?' "

GGGGAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!

Barista

Italian innit.

Anyway, I must go: my uncle Jack’s off his horse.

Epic fail.

I really couldn't care less.

And on a similar subject

Would that it were so simple....
We could all agree how to say things.

and the problem is?

Said Friends-ism is a lot less piss-boiling than "... and the problem is ... ?" or " ... and I should care because?" etc. Or that thing where people put "just" in the middle of a phrase and then repeat it - no, just no. And people saying language "evolves" yet all these irritating little fads fade away in a few years and the people that perpetrate them move on to the next. "Go for it". Anybody remember that one? Obviously an evolutionary dead-end. I could care less.

That video is superb Phil.

Swap out.
Colo(u)rway.

Go and rub your face repeatedly up and down a dry stone wall.

Kid in the queue at Woolies several years ago:
"Is we going to the cinema after this mum?"
Mum:
"It's not 'is we', it's 'am we'..."

Swap out or change out does my head in, just say swap or change!!

“Regular” instead of “medium” does generate the urge to murder someone.

This annoys me as well, I went somewhere once and asked for a small something or other*, the person behind the counter actually said "oh, we only do regular or large"....I said, "I'll have the smaller of the two then please".....

*could have been a coffee or maybe a bacon butty!

“Me and…” is annoying but “like” irritates me more. I am, like, woah!

As opposed to what? ...and me? Is that really that annoying!?

Please don't say you're one of those people who thinks it should always be "...and I", because that sounds more intelligent!?

Give me!

😀

Very common in Wales (or at least, the bits I used to frequent). IIRC “lend” and “borrow” are the same word in Welsh, hence the confusion in English.

And in Liverpool. Although in many parts of the city lend and borrow are the same as "have".

Mrs Jones was learning me English at school......

So this is like literally the millionth time this has been posted on here.

Drac stirs the pot...:)

The way Americans pronounce 'aluminium' and 'nuclear' though. Makes my blood 'quite literally' curdle.

Shirley, when there are only two options, 'Regular' and 'Large' would be OK?

It’s a losing battle against ‘can I get’.

Well I'm clinging onto proper speech.

Oh and don't get me started on Methodology.

Epic fail.

I'm sure your iPad will tell us why.

“May I have….” / “Can I get….”

Gonnae gie’s....

@martinhutch - yes, the tendency to say "noos" (or "nooz") for "news" and similar words is annoying: "Toosday" instead of "Tuesday" is another one.

Aluminium/aluminum is an interesting one - Sir Humphry Davy who discovered it first called it "alumina" then "aluminum" then finally "aluminium". The international Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry settled on "aluminium" so the UK version is the "official" one.

"me and ..." could be correct and incorrect depending on where in a sentence it occurs but you could easily bypass the problem - "Those belong to me and him ..." vs "Those belong us ...". Saying "Me and him are going to ..." could similarly stated as "We are going to"

The international Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry settled on “aluminium” so the UK version is the “official” one.

True, but so is "sulfur"...

“Me and…” is annoying

Why? If you said that to me and my mates, we'd explain why this sentence is entirely grammatically correct.

Well I’m clinging onto proper speech.

As your parents, grand parents or great grandparents used?

Gonnae gie’s….

Are you from Lesmahagow?

As the father of three who insist on using "can I get"....

Are you from Lesmahagow?

No, my parents aren’t even related.

can i get was standard in scotland when i was a kid - 1980s.

while we're on this sort of thing, anyone noticed on Android, the apostrophe-S for a plural has become standard suggestion. my logic is there must be more people using it wrongly that correctly, so some gooele algoritm somewhere has 'decided that's how it is.

i see red with this sort of stuff but have ot remind my self that language evolves. at least we don't have to use declensions anymore, or hardly anyway..

I could care less.

This is by far the worst one. I couldn’t care less. I could care less clearly means that you care 🤬

Myself and yourself are also annoying when used incorrectly.

my logic is there must be more people using it wrongly that correctly

And there's another one! "than" not "that" 😉 Generally a lot of people get "then", "than" and "that" mixed up.

That'll learn ya

Anyone here complaining about "americanisms" you are now banned from using the word "Hello"

You may use the word "Hulloo", "hallo"or "hullo" but only as an exclamation of surprise

Hello, muddy@rseguy. And **** off.
If you’re going to be a “guy”, why not be an ass?

(Hi, anyway, I suspect we’ve ridden together! 😀 Guy is your name isn’t it?)

I'm with Fry, and to misquote Barnier, "there is a special place in hell for grammar pedants".

arrrrgh! THAT was just a smelling pistake, but my wife does that instead of than.
she gets corrected every time...

If anyone actually thinks that finding "can I get" annoying is pedantry and fits in with what Fry was saying, then, well, they're actually thicker than they think they are.
(They probably say "Can I get" when ordering their Big Mac with bacon too)

1. When someone agrees with a previous comment by posting:

'This',

by way of agreement.

2. Misuse of the apostrophe

3. 'Peddle' instead of 'pedal'

4. 'Send it'

You're all going to burn

A Rewind?

Sir Humphry Davy who discovered it first called it “alumina” then “aluminum” then finally “aluminium”. The international Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry settled on “aluminium” so the UK version is the “official” one.

As i understood it, IUPAC (in North Carolina) didn't settle on aluminium but actually changed the English aluminum to fit with naming standards, the Americans simply never bothered to follow and stuck with the English aluminum. Alumina is and was the "common" name of aluminum oxide as far as I'm aware and was never applied to aluminium.

Re me and my friend. I don't know that my friend and I sounds any more intelligent, or even that ???? and I is always or ever more correct, it's just me and ???? annoys me in the same way as finding my self agreeing with Donald Trump. It's not that it's wrong it's just really really inexplicably annoying. I'm not likely to pick someone up on it but that doesn't mean it isn't allowed to cause me a little shudder every time i hear it.

I find being pedantic about about grammar is what keeps a marriage alive, certainly me and I wife find it so.

1. When someone agrees with a previous comment by posting:

‘This’,

by way of agreement.

2. Misuse of the apostrophe

3. ‘Peddle’ instead of ‘pedal’

4. ‘Send it’

You’re all going to burn

This

So can I get a regular cup of tea from my barista while I swap out the wheels on my new bike to match up the colourway of the frame, before Me and my mates head out to send it??

1. When someone agrees with a previous comment by posting:

‘This’,

by way of agreement.

2. Misuse of the apostrophe

3. ‘Peddle’ instead of ‘pedal’

4. ‘Send it’

Your all going to burn

ftfy

Am Welsh. Can confirm that I sometimes get confused by borrowed/lend so use the phrase "borrow when you're broke, lend when you're loaded" to remind myself. Such phrases are very useful especially when you need to mix acid and water.

Also while growing up had big issues with 'learn' and 'taught'. "That'll learn them" was a common phrase.

Borrow/lend = benthyg
Taught/learn = dysgu

I now get annoyed by people using 'of' instead of 'have'. And people who use 'less' instead of 'fewer'. Which is somewhat grating at supermarkets.

Re me and my friend. I don’t know that my friend and I sounds any more intelligent, or even that ???? and I is always or ever more correct, it’s just me and ???? annoys me in the same way as finding my self agreeing with Donald Trump. It’s not that it’s wrong it’s just really really inexplicably annoying. I’m not likely to pick someone up on it but that doesn’t mean it isn’t allowed to cause me a little shudder every time i hear it.

Take the other party out of the statement, that dictates whether it’s “me” or “I”. So it’s “he was talking to me and my mates”, because you wouldn’t say “he was talking to I”, but it’s “my mates and I were talking to him”, because you wouldn’t say “me were talking to him”.

Literally, WGAFF?

Literally, WGAFF?

Big Writters.

Please don’t say you’re one of those people who thinks it should always be “…and I”, because that sounds more intelligent!?

I do, because that’s how I was taught it should be. I could care less what you think.

Big Writters

Oh very good, actually!

I could care less what you think.

So you do care at least. How much do you care at the moment and by how much less could you care? Whereas I couldn’t care less.

Nothing says twunt quite like using 'myself' and 'yourself' - 'Is that gun pointed at myself? Maybe myself and yourself could talk about this going forward?' Nope - get in the sea.

An interesting one i noticed when living in North Wales was using the word 'keep' as 'put away'.

Got quite confusing sometimes. Was on a course and was told to keep all our equipment. 2 of us carried it with us. Everyone else put it back in the boxes.

They all spoke welsh except the 2 of us. So not sure if its another translation thing.

So where you guys goin on vacation this year?

So where you guys goin on vacation this year?

Somewhere with lots of sick stadiums.

Barrista

A massively over used term in the UK.... Very rarely have I had:

espresso that was:
1. pronounced correctly
2. served at tver right temperature

A cappuccino that wasn't filled to the brim with scalding milk with naff all froth.

A latte macchiato that wasn't served in exactly the same way as a cappuccino, but in a tall glass.

Coffee in the UK is generally shit. The only person I could describe as a barrista was an Italian guy working at Pret around the corner for St Barts in London.