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[Varche]

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!

[Kevin Wood]

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.

[X30XE]

Americans. 

[Doctor Gollum]

It's the new 'well...'

[Sir Tigger KC]

So the one that gets my goat is when people start a sentence with " Yes, No...." 

What the hell does that mean? 

[Doctor Gollum]

Yeah but no but yeah...

[STEMO]

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!

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

[Mister Rog]

My pet hate is overuse of "literally"

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

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

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. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Politicians often start with....

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

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

My pet hate is overuse of "literally"

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

....along with basically.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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!

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.

More pretentious is the use of the word 'one'

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Them people instead of those people.

Your instead of you are, or you're.

[Varche]

puticullay is another BBC word

[plym ian]

Erm well you know is always a good one