What ?

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Nob3y
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What ?

Post by Nob3y »

Why is it that most people on tv and in general say things like this in a converstion or an interview,

1, I mean
2,you know
3,end a line with so......


what the fuck is going on ???
has straight talking gone?
why does everybody do it ?
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Sam Slater
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Re: What ?

Post by Sam Slater »

I don't know.

Why do some people forget, or refuse to start sentences without a capital letter? !wink!

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Deuce Bigolo
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Re: What ?

Post by Deuce Bigolo »

Some people have difficulty being articulate

Personally i prefer to remain silent while I rattle around in the brain waiting for the right info to come to me

Sounds a damn sight better than UM,UM,UM,UM

My biggest beef is the uttering of 'You Know' before the speaker is about to tell you something that 'you don't know'

A learned bad habit from our American Cousins I would bet
jj
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Re: What ?

Post by jj »

Because it's hard to ad-lib on live TV if you're sincere but inexperienced,
and the teaching of rhetoric [in the original sense of the Ancient Greek art
of public oratory rather than the mere use of sophistry to win a pointless
logomachy] has all but died.
Couple that with a generally poor lack of education in the basics of English,
and the reslut is inevitable.

"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
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