Why Is It So

DMaxer · Guru

Why Is It So

Mike Harding · Guru

I know!

It's been driving me around the bloody bend for about three years!

It should be made illegal and infringement punished by 50 lashes followed by a compulsory week with Amanda Vanstone!

DMaxer · Guru

The only persons more painful than Amanda Vansdowne is Geraldine Doogue and Katherine Murphy.

KJB · Guru

DMaxer wrote:
Why is it that when anyone being interviewed is asked a question they immediately start their answer by saying "So"?

Americanism........

msg · Guru

So annoying. Does the teleprompter automatically put this on ?

Craig1 · Guru

So, they can divert their answer to a waffle, and then do not answer the actual question.

Whenarewethere · Guru

So so!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

So, I find it is the younger generation but sadly it is rubbing onto us oldies, hey.

yobarr · Guru

Dougwe wrote:
So, I find it is the younger generation but sadly it is rubbing onto us oldies, hey.

"So" and "like",among others,are filler words used by those with nothing to say.Cheers

oldbloke · Guru

So, i just wish politicians would answer the questions journalists ask.

Dicko1 · Senior Member

You should know that a simple answer of either yes or no is just too complicated for a politician..

oldbloke · Guru

Why is it spending?

When I was about 8 this bloke was my hero.

m.youtube.com/watch

bgt · Guru

So it's better that absolutely. Which absolutely drove me mad.

msg · Guru

Conflute

yobarr · Guru

bgt wrote:
So it's better that absolutely. Which absolutely drove me mad.

So,it's like better than "absolutely" or "...the reason why is because",or "I redid it again" I think? Spare me! I am being wondering why it is that so many people can't be speaking properly English please? Cheers

rgren2 · Guru

Woke.

peter67 · Guru

I'm rapt, it's knocked "moving forward" back down the list.

msg · Guru

Existential

I'm sure the reporters don't know the meaning of a lot of these words they are sprouting

KJB · Guru

Get go.......

Greg 1 · Guru

I have been in senior management positions for much of my career, and in a couple of companies I worked for, we had to attend very regular tiresome meetings, which for the most part were a complete and utter waste of time, put on by people in the company who were very fond of all the American motivation clap trap. The speakers they had along to these had all the favourite phrases and words of the time. A mate of mine and I, both of us who hated this type of meetings with a passion, used to have a little game of counting how many of these words and phrases the latest speaker could come up with. We called it the wank word syndrome. They all did it. Maybe they thought it was cool or something. To me it just sounded stupid and inept.

peter67 · Guru

Spot on Greg, I sympathise on the boredom angle too. As a fellow sufferer way back I sometimes used to think that you would not want to be with that person in a pub setting after a couple of beers, when the tiny bit of self restraint you still possessed evaporated.

Mike Harding · Guru

Greg 1 wrote:
The speakers they had along to these had all the favourite phrases and words of the time. A mate of mine and I, both of us who hated this type of meetings with a passion, used to have a little game of counting how many of these words and phrases the latest speaker could come up with.

It's called Bull$hit Bingo; before the meeting you print a heap of cards with the buzz words in a martix, random for each card, and the person who ticks off all the words on one line on his card jumps up and yells "Bingo!" :)

DMaxer · Guru

The other thing that really irritates me are the women in the media who try to speak out of the back of their throat with that croaky, raspy sound. The tone starts off as normal and towards the end of the sentence it gets lower and lower until it sounds a bit like a female version of Bob Hawke. I think it is called vocal fry or Valley Girls. The converse are the ones that end each sentence with an inflection as if every statement is a question.

I don't know but it drives me insane.

Craig1 · Guru

And so, the local news presenter has to fit 10 minutes of normal conversation into 7.9 minutes to accommodate the extra adverts.

DMaxer · Guru

The final of my trilogy of great annoyances are the ridiculous facial expressions of those wishing to show surprise. It starts with the mouth being opened up as far as possible followed by the eyes being opened as wide as possible and then the hands put over the mouth and the head moved side to side. If you then wish to go to Olympic levels you have to mutter "Oh my God".

It reminds me a bit of those clown heads at the Easter Show where you had to put ping pong balls in the mouth as they moved side to side.

-- Edited by DMaxer on Tuesday 20th of April 2021 03:29:07 PM

bgt · Guru

OMG I was waiting for OMG.

Mike Harding · Guru

It seems the current fashion is to extend everything to the extreme:

One is not "upset" or "annoyed" or "angered" any longer; one is "traumatised."

The recent Aboriginal thing in Victoria when some rocks were nicked: apparently whole generations were "traumatised" with "inter generational trauma" - I worry at nights when I lie awake in bed if they will every recover....

Then I remember Uncle Arthur who was gassed and suffered shell shock on the Somme in 1916 and I realise my whole family somehow avoided "inter generational trauma" although, truth be told, we didn't have any rocks pinhced by those pesky Germans.

bgt · Guru

Yes times are catastrophic.

peter67 · Guru

Surely your understating things.

msg · Guru

Excoriated. Why don't they just say severely criticize. Who are they trying to impress?. Severely criticize would be more easily understood by most people. Or are they hoping their comments go over the heads of people? Or... is it just a case of someone whose first language is not English using a translation tool to write their comments?