Innit! Is it? It is!

You’re right, you have way too much time on your hands but then so do most of us, or else we choose to squander a lot of it inappropriately.

Anyway I don’t know what linguistic experts would say but surely if language evolves then so too should punctuation?

Thus maybe the apostrophes are redundant. I agree that following the letter of the law, it would i’n’it. But if punctuation is there to ensure that the meaning is clear, then it’s a bit unnecessary as innit is unlikely to be mistaken for another word. But then if you start letting people drop apostophes, who knows where it will end? The very fabric of civilisation could crumble. Or summink

Posted over 2 years ago by SeeSee

As I mentioned at the picnic, the only time the word ‘innit’ should ever be used is in a sentence such as “I ran a bath and then got innit”. It’s so annoying when the youth of today use it to end every damn sentence, even when not asking a question, innit.

Posted over 2 years ago by Morals

Probably because the contraction started out as spoken English long before it was written down in formal officialish tomes, and somehow it got written down as a word in its own right rather than a contraction. Apparently everyone talks like this these days: http://www.allbusiness.com/specialty-businesses/509874-1.html.

Posted over 2 years ago by comradem

I ran a bath and then got innit

Another strange one. Why do we never fill baths, unless it’s with champagne and you’re a twat?

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

What’s even more inexplicable is the South African tendency to respond “is it?” where most people would say “really?”

EG: Me: I was running late so I missed the start of that meeting SA colleague: “Is it? Shame, man”

I actually find this quite endearing but I wonder where it comes from

Posted over 2 years ago by agox

It’s not just the South Africans Agox, all the kids are doing it these days. Innit.

ya hear me bredrin

Posted over 2 years ago by Morals

Is it not.

Posted over 2 years ago by purpaboo

There should have been a hard return in my post…sigh

Posted over 2 years ago by agox

Does one “run” a hot tub?

Posted over 2 years ago by SuckMonster

No, one has sex in a hot tub. Or at least uses it to store champagne…..

sorry always one usually me innit

Posted over 2 years ago by Morals

just annoys the hell out of me. a girl on the 521 yesterday seemed unable to utter more than 4 words without the need to say innit. my glares just made her speak punjabi again littered with the dreaded work

Posted over 2 years ago by wickedlywitchy

I love saying ‘innit’. It makes me look cool, like smoking does. But I don’t think it should have punctuation, because although it’s derived from ‘isn’t it’, it doesn’t really mean that any more, innit. It’s more like a reinforcement at the end of a sentence or something, innit.

Posted over 2 years ago by PrincessBride

“Or at least uses it to store champagne…..”

You’d need a hell of a lot of ice to keep it cool, although I suppose if you have the means to buy a hot tub and enough champagne to fill it, your extravagant weekly ice bill would be the least of your concerns.

If only there was someone on FCL that knows about the logistics of this sort of thing, and could enlighten us all…

Posted over 2 years ago by Babb

Since it seems that these days adding ‘innit’ to the end of a sentence is the same as adding ‘right’ was a few years ago.

So is ‘innit’ the new ‘right’ ??

Isn’t this a wonderful language (NOT) innit right (etc….)

Posted over 2 years ago by cobo04

What happened to ‘d’youknoworrimean?’ innit.

wotcha

Posted over 2 years ago by Flashboy

Why do we never fill baths, unless it’s with champagne…

Or baked beans.

Posted over 2 years ago by devilskitchen

Hmm, a bath full of baked beans – memories of uni days.

the wild bunch

Posted over 2 years ago by cobo04