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!

[andy-hughes]

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'. //

I do think that 'received pronunciation' is archaic these days, I don't want my BBC newsreaders to sound like Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter!

That said - things have swung rather too far the other way.

The BBC loves to patronise its audiences with 'northern types' like Sara Cox, who I cannot do with, because she is an accent, and little else.

I have no problem though with Messrs' Radcliffe and Maconie, who possess fathomless depths of knowledge matched only by their wit and humour.

[Playbill]

andy-hughes - pronouncing a word correctly is not the same as received pronunciation.

Why do BBC presenters have to degrade the language? They have a department that gives advice on how foreign names and words are pronounced, but fails to do the same for English.

[Bathsheba]

Had to come back to this because I failed to mention the intensely irritating and growing habit of replacing the "th" sound wiv a "v" Drives me insane.

Baths
x x

[-Talbot-]

Yes why do people do that, Baths ... a perfectly thalid observation.

[retrocop]

"With respect you are talking drivel". So I have read vat directed at over A B ers for disagreeing with a point of thiew. So how rude and arrogant is vat innit?

[Cloverjo]

Unfortunately my son pronounces words with that sound, Bathsheba and Talbot. He is an adult now and I've tried many times to get him to put his tongue between his teeth in order to pronounce the sound correctly, but he physically can't do it. He is very intelligent as well, by the way.

[Mamyalynne]

None of it bothers me , just part of life.

[-Talbot-]

Doesn't bovver me either, just joining in the fred!

[Bathsheba]

lmao Talbo x x

[Mamyalynne]

Behave you!!

[yogi-bear]

People who say "Having said that"...........we know you said it!!!...Ooooh rubs up my rhubarb, it does.

I normally say back to them "Having said what exactly?"


People who their eyes when they talk...aaarghh......I feel like moving, so when they open their eyes again, I'm behind them.

A slap with a wet fish could help, you know. :-)

[yogi-bear]

People who close their eyes ^^^

People who dont complete sentences properly also annoys me......grrrrrr

[Bathsheba]

People who say "so I turned round and said to him"

x x

[yogi-bear]

Lol, shebes x....Hope you're keeping fit, fine and funky, my lovely and wishing you a happy and enjoyable 2016 xx :-)

[-Talbot-]

Just committed the cardinal betting sin.

Logged on to betfair for a flutter and saw a horse called 'Welease Bwian' and stuck a tenner on it!

:0/

[ludwig]

When used in the context andy-hughes is talking about, it actually makes sense semantically, e.g..

AH: I don't like the taste of fish.
AN other: So you'd never put anchovies on your pizza then?

..but what the OP is referring to is this recent affectation of sticking it at the front of a sentence where it has no right to be e.g

Q - Tell me what you did during your summer holidays.
A - So, ....(optional pause for effect)...I hitch-hiked down to Venezuala in the nude.

I agree it is incredibly annoying.

[maggiebee]

Whilst agreeing with a lot of these posts, we must remember regional variations too. It confuses me when the English use the word "an" before a noun starting with an H eg an 'otel. Why do you drop the H? In Scotland we say "a Hotel". Wouldn't rant and rave about it though..........viva la difference!

[horseshoes]

Lots of times on Pointless, Alexander asks a contestant "what do you do" and contestant replies "So ..........

Infuriating.

[Cloverjo]

I haven't heard anyone except a few news readers say "an 'otel" for years. I certainly don't say it.

[pixie374]

Neither do I. A lot of these are just trends that come and go. None of it bothers me.