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Anyone else absolutely hate it when people use the phrase, "very much so" or is it just me?

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It always hacks me off when people say "...and then she turned round and said..."

Most people seem to be able to hold a conversation without continually rotating. What are they on about?

To be honest, I really hate the phrase "to be honest".

Does that mean everything else they`ve said has been a lie?

`oh yeh , for sure`


>:( >:( >:( aaarrrrrggggggggg

When I used to work in tesco, there was a phrase that most staff who thought they were going somewhere or if they already were a manager used to use.

......"At the end of the day..............."

>:(

Used to wind me up something chronic.

This item was edited on Thursday, 25th September 2003, 12:49

All the best >:(

Goodbye,

The 42%er.

People who start a sentence with "Put it this way", before they tell you something.

"No win situation"

and my all-time favourite, "touch base". You know your in the company of a real t*ss*r when that one comes out.

"I`m not being funny but..."

And they`re right, they never are...

And that other one when people ask you how you are over the phone and irrespective of your answer they say "Good, good..." before launching their sales speech.

julianf

I have one of those faces that, when relaxed, looks a bit miserable. As a result, when I used to do a lot of bar work, I soon got sick to death of hearing: "Cheer up" or "Come on, give us a smile" or "It might never happen" when I was already feeling perfectly happy. Nothing was guaranteed to p*$£ me off more than some moron telling me to cheer up.

"It might never happen" - how do they know it hasn`t happened already?

Another pet peeve is the unnecessary "official" sounding language that people often tie themselves up in knots with, for example:

"..received a letter addressed to myself..."

"...would passengers alighting from the train carriages onto the platform area please be aware of the gap between the carriages and the platform ..."

English is such a beautiful, expressive, mongrel language - it`s probably the most mult-cultural language on the planet, full of words, phrases and grammar borrowed from almost everywhere else. It can be subtle - the difference between "house" and "home" is something a lot of other languages would struggle to express - and elegant. Why do we, its "native" speakers, insist on tormenting it so?

"Anyone else absolutely hate it when people use the phrase, "very much so" or is it just me?"

I agree, very much so...