Why do they put toothpaste in tubes that prevent you seeing how much is left inside. You buy a new tube, then the old one goes on for ever.
Outrageous eh.... the same issue with these modern shaving cream dispensers,.,,, and if you are not careful it all splutters out everywhere... Mme actually cuts toothpaste tubes open and keeps em going for a week or so more.....
So I am not sure if there has been a change in how people on TV interviews respond or whether I have just noticed it but has anyone else noticed that an awful lot of people respond to any question starting with the word "So" So I was going into town; So the lights are being turned on....; So the Labour leadership said.... "So" used to be used as part of an explanation :- I drilled through the pipe, so the water went everywhere. Just listen out for it - sentences starting completely unnecessarily with the word So. ( I realise that this is horribly close to grammar and spelling grumps - but I did enjoy the book "Eats shoots and leaves".
I cant stand people on TV news etc saying 'gonna' Drives me mad.. I'm gonna have to do something about it one day
From a relatively early age at school we were told, in no uncertain terms, that you never start a sentence with "and", "but" or "so". The rules of basic grammar don't seem to apply to verbal communication these days.
My greatest achievement in my struggles with the French language was to be told that I spoke it as a teenager. Grammar dreadful, but understood. Newspapers seem to have a language all of their own.
Getting on my grumpy old nerves is my daughters use of "like" as in "like I was going down the road when like a car splashed through a puddle like it didn't even stop" , like what's all that about eh?
My 12 year old niece now uses the word "basically" as a form of punctuation. I think it's the new "like"
I literally cannot cannot stand the use of 'obviously' in interviews (if its so obvious...shut up). Although, obviously, I don't like the overuse of literally either. No, you did not 'literally' a find it unbelieveable...obviously. And don't get me started on 'unbelievable'.
Agree with you Bloother although some uses of literally make me smile - if only those people realised what they claimed to be "literally" doing
