Yeah yeah yeah ..annoying habit

[aliceBB]

'So' is used as a 'hedge' these days (buying time/levering oneself into a conversation), rather than as a preamble to a logical sequitur.

[RJRB]

I did actually work with someone who when asked a question prefixed his response with "me,myself personally"

"So " grates on me as well,but it would have been an improvement.

[*_ash_*]

They're called fillers, they happen unconsciously. It's only the same as saying errm, or huh, etc. Doesn't really bother me at all to be honest.

 

I was sat near someone on the bus recently who kept saying 'like' repeatedly throughout his conversation with the girl sat next to him. I entertained myself by counting how many times he said it for a while, but I soon lost count, it was a 40 minute journey.

 

I think 'like' is the new 'erm'

 

I prefer erm.

 

 

 

 

'so' as the first word in the thread was something that stood out immediately, I'm surprised that others commented on it. I'm not sure whether it's grammatically correct or not, I don't care really, but it's something that I've noticed in newspapers at work in the reader letter pages. It's normally followed by something ridiculous in those though, so I seem to associate it with that.

 

Not that yours was ridiculous jamtart I haven't seen you post for ages

 

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I was sat near someone on the bus recently who kept saying 'like' repeatedly throughout his conversation with the girl sat next to him. I entertained myself by counting how many times he said it for a while, but I soon lost count, it was a 40 minute journey.

 

- reminded me ^^

 

I picked up 2 young students (both female) in my taxi last year, Crookes to Mosborough Hall, and by Winter Street I'd realised their conversation was just 'like's. I also counted but at about hundred by St Mary's Gate, I got bored.

[skinz]

so are you one of these annoying people who find it necessary to say yes/yeah multiple times in reply to questions ? do you realise how silly it sounds , one positive or negative reply will do

 

 

Like whatever..............

[Jim Hardie]

My pet hate, and it's mainly pundits who do it, who start any sentance with look or listen. Waddle and Keane are shockers for it.

 

Done for emphasis but surely preferable to 'Obviously', the standard footballers' sentence starter.

[smithy266]

"oh my God" is one expression that seems to be an over-used, and probably not an apt one for the user.

[spilldig]

My pet hate, and it's mainly pundits who do it, who start any sentance with look or listen. Waddle and Keane are shockers for it.

 

Politicians are good at that. It's as though they are getting at us for not paying attencion to what they say. I wonder why ?

[LeMaquis]

I hate this modern fad of starting every sentence or reply with 'So'.

 

So do I.

 

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Done for emphasis but surely preferable to 'Obviously', the standard footballers' sentence starter.

 

Followed very quickly by "hopefully".

[gluedtopc]

Worst one of the lot has to be "No Worries" surely.

[spilldig]

Too many sentences also start with. You know what. Another one is when weather reporters say,ye weather. Now I don't particularly mind if someone says ye instead of your, in the street, I do it myself. It just doesn't sound right on the airwaves, but in any case, unless the weather reporter is broadcasting from a divers decompression chamber or an airtight room with it's own atmosphere, then it's their weather too, so what they should say is, our weather, and don't start me on the not puin Ts in and Gs on the end, like that. I mean come on, language evolves over time but methinks thou all knowest what I meaneth.

Edited December 16, 2014 by spilldig