You know, I think you might have a point, you know, because, you know, it's difficult you know to say, you know, something without, you know, saying, err, you know. No, I don't know. That's why you're telling me.
Just back from my trip to the UK and did become rather perplexed when everyone said, "Hello There". Hello is fine, but why the There?
It's a way of informing you that you are there, I.e. an outsider. You are not 'here', as in 'one of us'.
Obviously, definitely and absolutely as used by sportsmen during an interview it's like there brains have been replaced by a PR implant. Put PR people in too.
Slightly different but people who use profanities every second word. "effin ell mate - we went up the effin pub and bought an effin drink and the effin barman didn't effin give us enough effin change." And i hate to sound sexist but girls are now getting just as bad as the boys.
I suspect we all have language usages which trigger our rage...and these change over time. One that has annoyed me for some years now is "outside of"...the "of" really does serve no purpose whatsoever! Less and fewer appear to have become interchangeable now and I can't help correcting them whenever they're wrongly used by broadcasters. My current hate is the use of "iconic" to describe anything vaguely significant instead of something which has became a widely recognised visual symbol.
When I came back to the UK after working abroad my teenage godson said a gift I had bought him was "awesome" took me a week or two of being back to realise it had become everyday parlance for youngsters Another meaningful word degraded....
People who correct your gramma adn spelin and, punctuation? My wife is the worst, its the first thing she does when you give her something to read to comment on the message/meaning. And no she is not going in room 101!
I don't like ladies who get their husbands so annoyed that they have to complain about it on an internet forum. I think Scullions wife should go into Room 101
