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What ?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:31 pm
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 ?
Re: What ?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:37 pm
by Sam Slater
I don't know.
Why do some people forget, or refuse to start sentences without a capital letter? !wink!
Re: What ?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:37 pm
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
Re: What ?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:49 pm
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.