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!

[Khandro]

for "it is the beginning of a sentence " please read "it is the beginning of a question"

As I might say, 'And are you the rat-fink who dumped the spaghetti into the piano?'

[ummmm]

Andy - I don't think she's quite as harsh as she makes out.

[vulcan42]

Don McLean wrote a song "And I love you so" which will no doubt annoy hopkirk but at least it wasn't called " So, and I love you".

[bazwillrun]

"we must agree to disagree"

in other words im wrong ....but to make it seem like im not hacked off that i cant get my own way we must agree to disagree...

[Sqad]

LOL...LOL ^^^

[ummmm]

So, Baz, to be fair, he's entitled to his opinion :-)

[Hypognosis]

Most surprisingly, I hear this often in things like Countryfile or the wildlife segment of The One Show where the journo asks the nature expert to explain why the animal in question behaves in a special way and it is the expert who perpetrates the "So....", followed by the explanation, or story. The "So" is completely redundant. As would be "Well, basically, Brian,....."

[Bathsheba]

@brainiac....I agree with you regarding "sixth" becoming "sikth", and also on some film advertising it will be in cinemas from January "Fifteen", without "th".

@andy....it sure is as good thing you won't be watching Celebrity Big Brother.(just a guess ;) ) because I'm sure there'll be plenty of "I'm not being funny, but"s flying about ;)

[viv41]

The only thing I'm not keen on is ending a sentence with 'innit' !

[bazwillrun]

@ummm

but thats not the point...whenever i see that written thats nearly always the meaning meant by the person that has said it, right or wrong...

[bazwillrun]

"The only thing I'm not keen on is ending a sentence with 'innit' ! "

and we know whos fav phrase that is dont we..innit, know what i mean !

[viv41]

No baz, I don't ?

[Svejk]

Avoid Dublin, brainy.

[bazwillrun]

you must lead a sheltered life...

[bazwillrun]

that was to viv

[ummmm]

Baz, I understand where you're coming from. My son and I disagree on so many subjects that if we didn't 'agree to disagree' we'd spend all our time arguing.

[viv41]

Thanks baz !!!

[Hypognosis]

My current pet hate is "ath-el-etes" but it may be confined to one location reporter in a certain TV region so you'll have been spared this inexplicable mispronouciation.

Not that I dislike a bit of variety. Quirks of language give a person more character. Sloppy use of English also gives me the pleasure of being snobby and feeling superior to them. I used to think that pedantry was me helping them to not look foolish, any more, on a public (and permanent) medium but, these days, I think I have just descended into sadism and I do it for kicks.


{Heath Warning: produced in a factory which processes sarcasm}

[andy-hughes]

bazwillrun - // "we must agree to disagree"

in other words im wrong ....but to make it seem like im not hacked off that i cant get my own way we must agree to disagree... //

Er ... no.

Feel free to put an entirely wrong interpretation on my post if you wish, but I am equally free to shoot it down.

I am not 'hacked off' in the slightest, nor do I want 'my own way' - I simply see things differently from my colleagues.

Are you going to continue in 2016 the way you were in 2015 - picking up on my posts and dissecting them and adding incorrect interpretations? because if so, it's going to be a tedious year.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

It's all part of the English make-up, we say "sorry" if someone steps on our foot.