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Hotrodder · #11 Post by **Hotrodder** » Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:36 pm

I have started counting how many times someone says "you know" in a single sentence. The record so far this morning is 3 times.

hughnique · #12 Post by **hughnique** » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:07 pm

The misuse of Bought and Brought is another wind up for us.

Blaze · #13 Post by **Blaze** » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:05 pm

Not having UK TV, we don't get subjected to all this (fortunately) !

However, in French there are equally irritating words : the use of "quoi" at the end of every sentence, a bit like saying "yer know" at the end of a sentence.
Another irritation is the increasing use of "on" when they could use "je" or "nous" ("on" does not equal "one" in English but should be "je" "nous" or "n'importe qui").

Bayleaf · #14 Post by **Bayleaf** » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:19 pm

Oh dear, I'm guilty of using "on" as a collective cover-all!

I think my biggest bug bear on TV is when people (usually English, it has to be said) say "free" instead of "three". How could that have been missed in early education? Or is it a regional accent thing?

ExMontpelliérain · Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:22 pm

Blaze wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:05 pm Not having UK TV, we don't get subjected to all this (fortunately) !

However, in French there are equally irritating words : the use of "quoi" at the end of every sentence, a bit like saying "yer know" at the end of a sentence.
Another irritation is the increasing use of "on" when they could use "je" or "nous" ("on" does not equal "one" in English but should be "je" "nous" or "n'importe qui").

Sounds like the French equivalent of the English language upward inflection, an Australian import which, fortunately, appears to be dying out.

Blaze · #16 Post by **Blaze** » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:25 pm

ExMontpelliérain wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:22 pm Sounds like the French equivalent of the English language upward inflecti

It's not really an inflection, more like adding "yer know" at the end of the sentence !

Hotrodder · #17 Post by **Hotrodder** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:28 pm

Bayleaf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:19 pm Oh dear, I'm guilty of using "on" as a collective cover-all!

I think my biggest bug bear on TV is when people (usually English, it has to be said) say "free" instead of "three". How could that have been missed in early education? Or is it a regional accent thing?

Guess who watches Eastenders then...................

Bayleaf · #18 Post by **Bayleaf** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:48 pm

Hotrodder wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:28 pm
Bayleaf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:19 pm Oh dear, I'm guilty of using "on" as a collective cover-all!

I think my biggest bug bear on TV is when people (usually English, it has to be said) say "free" instead of "three". How could that have been missed in early education? Or is it a regional accent thing?
Guess who watches Eastenders then...................

Erm, not me! Haven't watched it since I left the UK in 2003!

MAD87 · #19 Post by **MAD87** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:54 pm

OK (not So), here's my real bugbear: novelists - who should know better - using discrete when they mean discreet. I think when I retire as a translator this year, I'm going to become a copy editor.

Char · #20 Post by **Char** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:03 pm

MAD87 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:54 pm OK (not So), here's my real bugbear: novelists - who should know better - using discrete when they mean discreet. I think when I retire as a translator this year, I'm going to become a copy editor.

Good luck with that - I'm not really very good at grammar and spelling, but I've had lots of occasions over the last few years, when I just give up reading a book because my brain can't cope with the misspelling and bad grammar in them.

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