Answering With So.......

[brainiac]

If there is one thing guaranteed to get my goat (and there are many), it is people on news/current affairs programs answering every question with " So........" there's a guy on Newsnight doing it RIGHT NOW! Aaaaaargh, why did this start about a year ago? It drives me up the wall: I recently watched a meteorologist being interviewed about weather patterns, and he answered 5 out of 7 questions in that way. Other fav bugbears are: pronouncing SIXTH as SIKTH (step forward Jeremy Paxman), pronouncing the letter H as 'haich', pronouncing mischievous as MISCHEEVIOUS, calling the supermarket TESCO'S.....I'd better stop now!

[Bathsheba]

@ Hypo.....in my experience the Welsh terminate a conversation with "so there we are then"

Baths
x x

[-Talbot-]

I'm not, Bathy. I didn't join in the thicko bashing on the thread I posted a link to earlier. Anyone who did surely was pissing on someones chips?

Who cares about a few grammatical errors ... not me for two reasons

A, I make my fair share of them
B, I wouldn't care even if I didn't make grammatical errors.

So long as I can get the gist of the post I'm happy.

[Bathsheba]

@ Talbo,...ok, we're good , so there we are then ;)

Baths
x x

[-Talbot-]

I just think some of andy's posts come across as though Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani has posted them.

[retrocop]

Bathsheba
@ Talbo,...ok, we're good , so there we are then ;)


Indeed to goodness. Dieu Dieu Dieu. :-)

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //I just think some of andy's posts come across as though Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani has posted them. //

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Thank you.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //How often do you use encapsulation in real life situations, andy? //

Do you mean the word?

If it requires it.

I am incredibly proud of my erudition, I almost never say err, or wonder what I am going to say next.

[Prudie]

"Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani". So, let me guess, let me guess - Joey. Sorry but he's hot :-)

[viv41]

Sorry andy, but that post made me laugh, oops, you don't like people starting off with 'sorry' do you ....... !

[-Talbot-]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1tOqZUNebs

[andy-hughes]

viv - //Sorry andy, but that post made me laugh, oops, you don't like people starting off with 'sorry' do you ....... ! //

I have no problem with people starting off with sorry, if they are apologising for something specific.

It's the 'Sorry but ...' and then an opinion expressed, because the 'sorry' infers that the speaker shouldn't be saying what they are saying.

[fiction-factory]

Andy- you mean like "I'm not being racist but...", "I'm not being funny, but... and "With respect..."

[andy-hughes]

fiction-factory - //Andy- you mean like "I'm not being racist but...", "I'm not being funny, but... and "With respect..." //

You've got it!

Actually, if the 'With respect ...' person starts of with "With the greatest respect ..." you know you are going to receive an inversely proportional degree of respect from them - rather like you respect something you just trod in!

[viv41]

OK andy, soz x

[andy-hughes]

viv41 - //OK andy, soz x //

With planet-sized respect ... I'll let you off!!!

LOL xx

[viv41]

Chuckle ...

[Playbill]

The BBC used to be regarded as the standard to aim for in correct language and pronunciation. That standard has dropped. Most reporters and presenters use lazy English - such as pronouncing the word 'garage' as 'garIDGE'. Then there is the new word 'ter' instead of 'to': as in 'he is going ter reform this or that'.

[Prudie]

Sorry but I blame the parents

[vulcan42]

There's a growing number on all channels who were obviously taught a different numbering system to me. I was never taught twenny.