The little word that is SO irritating

longsidetrumpet · Post by **longsidetrumpet** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:41 pm

Anybody else noticing the growing number of people on TV and radio (but not in real life!) prefacing the answer to a question with the word 'so' when it is unnecessary? Most experts when I'm listening to the radio seem to use it, it's rife on The Apprentice, and even two bloody chefs on Masterchef used the 'so' word when it was not needed.

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:43 pm

So no, I haven't.

longsidetrumpet · Post by **longsidetrumpet** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:44 pm

You will now I've mentioned it

CleggHall · Post by **CleggHall** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:44 pm

Absolutely as I was saying!

Rojales Claret · Post by **Rojales Claret** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:58 pm

Also people who start to answer a question with the words yes no, or no yes!

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:00 pm

Bashclaret wrote:Also people who start to answer a question with the words yes no, or no yes!

yes, no,... I mean..etc, etc.

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:04 pm

Well.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:05 pm

Obviously

Pimlico_Claret · Post by **Pimlico_Claret** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:09 pm

Last year's news, thread.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:10 pm

"I turned around" gets on my nerves. Everybody "turned around and said". Everybody should be dizzy. There's far too much turning around.

CleggHall · Post by **CleggHall** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:12 pm

OP - you are so absolutely right!

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:13 pm

I like, get a little, well like, cheeses of like, when people say like, literally like every other word.

PutTheWheelieBinsOut · Post by **PutTheWheelieBinsOut** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:16 pm

When people (especially footballers) answer a question when being interviewed with the first word being 'no', for example 'no I agree' .... why they gotta do that???????????

brigante · Post by **brigante** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:24 pm

Look - that's the way it is

bfcmik · Post by **bfcmik** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:30 pm

PutTheWheelieBinsOut wrote:When people (especially footballers) answer a question when being interviewed with the first word being 'no', for example 'no I agree' .... why they gotta do that???????????

Flannel things out in order to give yourself time to think or reduce the amount of questions they have time for during the whole interview. I went on a couple of media interview training sessions and this sort of thing was one of the main deflecting tools they taught us.

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:40 pm

Can you be a bit more Pacific?

paulus the woodgnome · Post by **paulus the woodgnome** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:52 pm

I would of.

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:54 pm

So and so

The phrase that gets right on my paps is “ to be fair”

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:06 pm

a lot of posters on here will do it too, use so i mean.
They media idiots and others in general population must make a decision one morning to start doing it.
Same with absolutely brigade, been going for a few years now.

duncandisorderly · Post by **duncandisorderly** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:15 pm

This is ten years old at least.
If you're going to complain about the modern day vernacular at least get it right, fam.

gricey44 · Post by **gricey44** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:51 pm

"like I say " when they didn't say it, and "you know" when I don't know.

Smeghead · Post by **Smeghead** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:01 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote:a lot of posters on here will do it too, use so i mean.
They media idiots and others in general population must make a decision one morning to start doing it.
Same with absolutely brigade, been going for a few years now.

So, to be fair, I am literally going to absolutely explode if I hear anyone else use of instead of have.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:35 pm

Like musicians where everything has to be 'kinda like you know'.
SO replaced 'Amaaaaaaaaaaaazing' as the most irritating buzz phrase about 18 months ago.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:45 pm

Smeghead wrote:So, to be fair, I am literally going to absolutely explode if I hear anyone else use of instead of have.

i didn't, so you're wrong, absolutley wrong

69 WALLOP · Post by **69 WALLOP** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:47 pm

SO what!

atlantalad · Post by **atlantalad** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:08 am

Me, personally, would use so al't time.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:19 am

- the disappearance of 'can I have' and the replacement with 'can I get' that stalbansclaret has commented amusingly about more than once.

Longside4evr · Post by **Longside4evr** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:38 am

When football player are interviewed and being asked questions I find it very irritating when they use "urm"
Rooney the worst for it every other word to seek his next word from the bottom of his toy box

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:44 am

It's perfectly natural, nothing to worry about. Next !

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:02 am

I know what you mean like (classic scouse)

arise_sir_charge · Post by **arise_sir_charge** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:05 am

“Can I get” Is an horrendous turn of phrase.

I also don’t like it when I’m talking to someone and they start a sentence with “Listen”.

The word “odious” is used far too much on this forum when describing people.

Shappie · Post by **Shappie** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:06 am

“For me”
As in - “ he has got to close that ball down quicker for me”

Sounds awful

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:33 am

'reached out'
'People like me'
'Crikey'
'People of colour™'

Guitargeorge · Post by **Guitargeorge** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:54 am

Everyone used grammar in a correct sense until football pundits and managers started the decline in the 60’s and 70’s with phrases like “The boy done good” and “He’s went for the ball”

Guitargeorge · Post by **Guitargeorge** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:56 am

I must say that I do agree with the OP. It has now reached epidemic proportions and is extremely irritating

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:01 am

I would gladly strap someone to the back of a Range Rover and drive them around the estate for saying like, so and literally every second word.

MrClaretandBlue · Post by **MrClaretandBlue** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:04 am

Opinionated weather forecasters who tell me it’s going to be a “miserable day”
Miserable to who? I quite like a bit of drizzle, so stick to the facts!

welsbyswife · Post by **welsbyswife** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:16 am

Centre forwards playing "up top" instead of "up front".

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:16 am

I hate it when Burnley loose. I also agree with the OP. It’s another Americanism creeping in.

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:16 am

Add to that "very" used in spades especially by politicians. Few if any are concerned, most are very concerned with a considerable number very very concerned and so on and so forth

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:21 am

So is more than an Americanism, it's a corporate Americanism. It's how you speak when you get your first corporate leadership role. It's usually followed by "does that make sense?" when trying to complete an answer to a question that some awkward minion has deigned to ask you in front of everyone...

Goddy · Post by **Goddy** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:01 am

"I fink"
"Good to get the free points" (that's a number, not a gift....although could be both I suppose?!)

I don't fink so many thootballers have speech impediments - just laziness, perhaps, or is it considered a bit posh to say 'th'?

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:12 am

Slightly off topic, but I've never quite understood where someone is when they're playing 'in the hole'.

Does the hole move, and if so isn't that a major hazard for the likes of Dele Alli?

Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:12 am

So, for me personally, I do ,like, fink, you know, that people should speak proper specially when I lend sommat off em

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:22 am

So, why don't we, like, get some 20 year olds on this thread to start talking like old duffers

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:45 am

Right you Guys, what can I get you guys to drink,?

wwhen in a nice bar or eatery gets on my t1ts. Especially when dining with the Mrs.
I'm not too arsed about the teenage lad behind the bar at the local, but when eating out with the wife, come on, have some manners.

Goddy · Post by **Goddy** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:00 am

MACCA wrote:Right you Guys, what can I get you guys to drink,?

wwhen in a nice bar or eatery gets on my t1ts. Especially when dining with the Mrs.
I'm not too arsed about the teenage lad behind the bar at the local, but when eating out with the wife, come on, have some manners.

(Says bar person type) "A beer, mate?"

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:06 am

''You take care bud"

paulus the woodgnome · Post by **paulus the woodgnome** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:00 pm

"I've just brought this new top"
No you haven't, you have bought it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Falcon · Post by **Falcon** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:24 pm

'Obviously' when it isn't something obvious