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Title: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Varche on 08 February 2017, 09:23:27
Anyone else noticed how everyone on TV when asked a question replies

so......

When did that start? More to the point I bet you can't use it for a whole day! ;D
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Kevin Wood on 08 February 2017, 10:10:58
So.. I was thinking exactly this on the way to work today when some idiot was being interviewed on radio 4.  ::)

It always sounds horribly patronising to me for some reason. It's almost an immediate acknowledgement of the question that's used to try to cover up for the fact that the interviewee is about the answer a completely different question. >:(
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: X30XE on 08 February 2017, 12:17:07
Americans.  ::)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 08 February 2017, 12:21:50
It's the new 'well...'
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 08 February 2017, 12:28:54
So the one that gets my goat is when people start a sentence with " Yes, No...."  ::)

What the hell does that mean?  :-\
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 08 February 2017, 12:33:08
Yeah but no but yeah... (https://youtu.be/Tsl7-TJtPew)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: STEMO on 08 February 2017, 12:33:41
Anyone else noticed how everyone on TV when asked a question replies

so......

When did that start? More to the point I bet you can't use it for a whole day! ;D
This has been happening for at least two years, maybe more. Another, more annoying, assault on the English language is when they say 'myself' instead of 'me'.
John and myself went to lanzarote this year. If you find it, bring it to myself. My missus started doing it, until she got royally slapped down for being a pretentious (and grammatically incorrect) twot.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/me_myself.htm
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Mister Rog on 08 February 2017, 12:36:20
My pet hate is overuse of "literally"

I mean, we just so drunk, I literally laughed my head off. Hmmmm messy  ::)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 08 February 2017, 12:41:50
Quite a few of these examples of verbal diarrhoea get on my wick. Using the phrase "to be fair" when they actually mean "to be honest", is very common these days.
The police seem to be developing their own version of the English language whereby spokesmen (or women) start most of their sentences with the word "clearly". I'm guessing instructors tell them this sounds authoritative ?
Ive watched several police shows on Tv recently, and the current buzzword seems to be "potentially". It pops uyp in every other sentence.
Then theres the chavs who initiate conversation with a noise which sounds like "natameenmate ?"
If I knew what you meant, I wouldn't have to suffer listening to you - fickin moron.  :D
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 08 February 2017, 12:56:40
Politicians often start with....

That is a good question. But the question you really should be asking me is this. :)


Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 08 February 2017, 12:58:19
My pet hate is overuse of "literally"

I mean, we just so drunk, I literally laughed my head off. Hmmmm messy  ::)


....along with basically.
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 08 February 2017, 13:00:35
Anyone else noticed how everyone on TV when asked a question replies

so......

When did that start? More to the point I bet you can't use it for a whole day! ;D
This has been happening for at least two years, maybe more. Another, more annoying, assault on the English language is when they say 'myself' instead of 'me'.
John and myself went to lanzarote this year. If you find it, bring it to myself. My missus started doing it, until she got royally slapped down for being a pretentious (and grammatically incorrect) twot.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/me_myself.htm

I do that. ;D

More pretentious is the use of the word 'one' :)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 08 February 2017, 13:04:40
Them people instead of those people.

Your instead of you are, or you're.

Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Varche on 08 February 2017, 13:06:01
puticullay is another BBC word :(
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: plym ian on 08 February 2017, 13:16:21
Erm well you know is always a good one
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 08 February 2017, 13:16:59
The number of politicians who say nucular instead of nuclear amazes me.
Motorbycyclist Casey Stoner usualy started his answers to journalists questions with "yeah, nah" or "nah,yeah" God only knows what that was about.
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Post by: 2boxerdogs on 08 February 2017, 13:29:54
Not only words that annoy me , but the "trendy" but awful phrases like "love you to bits"  " blue sky thinking" etc.
All a load of nonsense.
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: STEMO on 08 February 2017, 13:30:34
The number of politicians who say nucular instead of nuclear amazes me.
Motorbycyclist Casey Stoner usualy started his answers to journalists questions with "yeah, nah" or "nah,yeah" God only knows what that was about.
Nucular. When one of them says it, my missus goes and hides. She knows what's coming  >:(

I can't half swear, me  ;D
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Kevin Wood on 08 February 2017, 14:34:47
OK, while we're at it.. People who talk about history in the present tense.(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26795734/Smilies/banghead.gif)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Varche on 08 February 2017, 17:08:30
Artic for a cold area near the North Pole!
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: TheBoy on 08 February 2017, 17:39:16
I talks proper, I does.
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 08 February 2017, 18:03:26
Artic for a cold area near the North Pole!

Coversely - a director (now managing director) of a company I worked for which owned over 100 trucks, always referred to arctics and wouldn't be told any different.  ::)
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 08 February 2017, 18:57:00
Aircrafts as the plural of aircraft... Aaargh :D
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: Tick Tock on 08 February 2017, 20:07:49
It's all been a bit mild so far .........  you lot wanna get yourself a life  8)

But the thing (see I started the sentence with a but) what really gets on my goat (think Porridge sketch) is people that constantly say 'you know' during conversation. Almost as if they haven't got the point across, 'you know'. If I knew, you wouldn't need to keep saying 'you know'.

So......... so sounds much better than 'you know', you know what I mean?  :P
Title: Re: So - use of at start of a reply
Post by: STEMO on 08 February 2017, 20:10:13
It's all been a bit mild so far .........  you lot wanna get yourself a life  8)

But the thing (see I started the sentence with a but) what really gets on my goat (think Porridge sketch) is people that constantly say 'you know' during conversation. Almost as if they haven't got the point across, 'you know'. If I knew, you wouldn't need to keep saying 'you know'.

So......... so sounds much better than 'you know', you know what I mean?  :P
No. They both sound cretinous.