ATTAK Z Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 So why am I hearing more and more people beginning a sentence with the word "so" ? It's becoming prevalent on the news programmes when so called experts are being asked their opinion. It's almost as irritating as the upward inflexion at the end of a sentence that's a statement , not a question ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjf1985 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) So annoying, not as bad as "like" though Edited November 15, 2014 by pjf1985 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATTAK Z Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 And these people otherwise appear to be intelligent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 "Ye get me"...That drives me mad.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetpilot Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 I have noticed it on a tv series (american) i watch, whenever someone enters the room, they say, so.... blah blah blah Its annoying me too, i have an inkling its coming from america, a buddy of mine over there a couple of years ago, after 9 months he came back and every time we asked a question he started with, so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 "...you know what I mean" after each sentence is another one 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATTAK Z Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 "...you know what I mean" after each sentence is another one Yea but this is a new one ... are you with me ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Modern speech is degrading very quickly, don't get me started...I detest text speak along with the media using whats deemed to be more modern speech and phrases, and in particular changing traditional pronunciation of place names and certain words. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 "So" is the new "basically". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 I'm getting older and grumpier too, ...get's my back up when people use the word "sick". In the sense of they think something's "cool" or "good". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seasider Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 'Innit' is my personal favourite. Closely followed by 'literally' and the previous mentioned 'like' They all affect me like scratching a blackboard with a fingernail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 So innit about time you lot like got with the program and learn the new ways, I mean literally do cause it's sick innit like!? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricey Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Usually you can expect the word 'random' to be in any sentence that's been started with 'so'.........almost inevitably describing something that was less than 'random' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Something that annoys me a lot is the BBC's insistence on mispronouncing words such as "DEcade" 10 years as "deCADE" as in rotted away. :rant:And then there's the incorrect use of the reflexive pronoun "myself" to mean "I" or "me" to "yourself" to mean "you". "would yourself care to take a look at the menu?" "Keith and myself thought it was a good idea" "I done it" instead of "I did it" "You've done it perfect" Instead of "perfectly" "You was" instead of "you were" "Could/would/should of" instead of the contraction" Should've" Misuse of past participles, past simple, adverbs, auxiliary verbs, it goes on and on... :banned: :banned: Edited November 15, 2014 by Rock_Steady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Oh! And the over bloody use of " At the end of the day" At the end of the day the phrase " at the end of the day " is the most commonly used phrase at the end of the tossing day!! Edited November 15, 2014 by Rock_Steady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Modern speech is degrading very quickly, don't get me started It doesn't help that the usage of double negatives seems compulsory on TV Soaps...phrases like "I don't know nothing". Then there's the inability of many to distinguish the difference between loan and borrow. Pete 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudman Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Almost as irritating as Finally ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Burns Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Over the last couple of years the use of "he is a France international" instead of "he is a French international" or similar has really bugged me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Oh! And the over bloody use of " At the end of the day" At the end of the day the phrase " at the end of the day " is the most commonly used phrase at the end of the tossing day!! You've been watching too much of Jeremy Kyle I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Exactly!!! This is good hard evidence of my case. Even if they are slack jawed troglodytes off Jeremy Kyle, they could just as easily use: The nitty gritty is.. The bottom line is.. What it all boils down to The reality is.. Edited November 15, 2014 by Rock_Steady 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 People saying 'seen' instead of 'saw'.. "I seen it" ffs it's "I saw it" or "I've seen it" Why do some people pronounce 'ask' as 'arksk' or 'arks' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATTAK Z Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 So I nicked this from (off of lol) YouTube The educated classes have been using the word 'so' superfluously at the beginning of statements since the 90s, especially when answering direct questions. Linguists have traced it back to Microsoft employees. For me it is the most annoying linguistic habit to arise since the tendency (in the English speaking world) to finish non-interrogative sentences with the questioning inflexion. This adoption of 'so' as a syllable to announce the beginning of a statement is often by the sort of people who would sneer at the use of 'like' to vocalise the comma or replace 'erm', which they see as a sign of a sub standard education, blissfully unaware as they are of their own ridiculous speech habits. The effect of the erroneous use of 'so' is that I stop listening to the speaker immediately, as my own internal monologue takes over with thoughts like "This person is an idiot".  And that's it in a nutshell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) I also find the current Bank add "Life skills" on TV very worrying, makes me wonder just what they are being taught at school, the fact that they have to point out the difference between applying for a job and writing on faceache is particularly disturbing. Edited November 15, 2014 by Tricky-Ricky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Bought vs Brought A mystery to many 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon Chris Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Everyone is 'passionate' about everything. Its' bloody everywhere, I feel very passionate about this. ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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