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dave the rave
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edited November 2018 in General Chat #1

I find the latest craze that starts every sentence with "so" quite irritating.How many agree?

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  • moulesy
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    edited November 2018 #2

    Over to you, Tammygirl! laughing

  • Tammygirl
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    edited November 2018 #3

    tongue-outtongue-outtongue-outembarassedcrylaughing

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited November 2018 #4

    So, I was like it’s so not worth getting wound up about.

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2018 #5

    We all have idiosyncrasies that would irritate someone, somewhere y'know like.

  • trellis
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    edited November 2018 #6

    Yer but , No but.😁😁.

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    edited November 2018 #7
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  • dave the rave
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    edited November 2018 #8

    in particular that very annoying robert peston!

  • ABM
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    edited November 2018 #9

    So  very  annoying  that  scruffy  Peston  is !

  • huskydog
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    edited November 2018 #10

    So, what this thread all about then ????

  • brue
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    edited November 2018 #11

    So I'm so sorry...

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2018 #12

    I was watching Tipping Point on ITV yesterday  - the winner, apparently a reasonably intelligent guy, before giving every answer prefaced it with "I wanna say ..... ". Well, why not just say it then. Where did that expression spring from? undecided

  • ABM
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    edited November 2018 #13

    Ach  So ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2018 #14

    Ah so. ( accompanied by deep bow)

  • mickysf
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    edited November 2018 #15

    It's not instead of it isn't

    It's not just get shortened to 'snot

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2018 #16

    Only if one speaks phlegmish?

  • jennyc
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    edited November 2018 #17

    My husband is, like me, irritated by all of the above. Plus;

    ’Newsreaders’, with idiosyncratic diction, headed by Robert Peston, The undecipherable.

    ’Obviously’. I wouldn’t be asking if it was.

    And garidge. Is it a wonder that so many people can’t spell.

    Reviews which start with, ‘I haven’t got one, but I should think...

    Strange and incorrect beliefs, stated as fact.

  • JillwithaJay
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    edited November 2018 #18

    Innit, know what I mean, brov. sealed

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2018 #19

    For sure.

    A phrase beloved of international racing drivers, particularly Germanic ones. 

    I am certainly not going to criticise though, their English is a lot better than my German.😉

     

    ’Newsreaders’, with idiosyncratic diction, headed by Robert Peston, The undecipherable. 

    I'm sure he's laughing all the way to the bank.😂

  • young thomas
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    edited November 2018 #20

    So, so you think you can tell
    Heaven from hell
    Blue skies from pain
    Can you tell a green field
    From a cold steel rail?
    A smile from a veil?
    Do you think you can tell?

     

    sometimes only 'so' will do....wink

     

  • ABM
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    edited November 2018 #21

    Ah,  to  be  sure,  to  be  sure  cool

  • ggregu
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    edited November 2018 #22

    The Headteacher at my school has a strange Robert Peston- like way of enunciating his words. He has a   pause     between     words   and sometimes between letters in words. His Assistant Heads have taken to doing this too. So ridiculous!

  • Tammygirl
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    edited November 2018 #23

    So!

    I was told by my parents that its not nice to make fun of people, I chose to passed this onto my children.

    Not everyone is blessed with a high IQ, not everyone is lucky to go to university (or even wanted to) not everyone has the ability to understand the complexities of English grammar/language. 

    So,  does that make you feel superior? wink

  • Navigateur
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    edited November 2018 #24

    Unfortunarely, many who now go to University have most of the above idiosyncrancies, and much worse. Trying to get their written work into a form that might pass examiners is akin to translating a foreign language.

  • redface
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    edited November 2018 #25

    So what?

  • ABM
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    edited November 2018 #26

    Sew  That  !!

  • dave the rave
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    edited November 2018 #27

    I only "sowed" the seed for a survey to find if I am not alone in finding the modern way an annoyancewink

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  • mickysf
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    edited November 2018 #29

     So, it's just a drop in the ocean of annoying things! 

    For sure, don't take it too littoral ly!wink

  • Oneputt
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    edited November 2018 #30

    Like a lot of things, particularly on CT, I just block it outlaughing Our language has changed over hundreds of years so a few more changes won't make much difference

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2018 #31

    Possibly not but it may make it unintelligible.

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