idf101

Another really awful use of the English language is the rise of people who start any sentence or an answer to a question with the word "So".
Noticed it today on C4s Sunday brunch when the lady presenter answered every question with So blah blah, Why? it sounds stupid and makes no sense.

I am off to read some Shakespear and cool down!!!

dazsti72

Americanism..

Turbohot

Ok, you do that. But before you do that, learn to write Shakespeare's spelling correctly before criticising the flippant use of 'so'. He's not some sort of fruit shake or some shuddering, coward spear shaker. He's Shakespeare.

dazsti72

He only missed the E off fella..

Turbohot

I'm not a fella, I am a fellie.

Yes, he missed the 'e' off, and believe me, I'm not putting him down for it. I'm just pulling his leg. Hope this is clear.

RA Dunk

Which get's me to my next point, Can we get an 'English' spell checker on this site and none of this American bullsh1t, A spell checker which doesn't even spell in my language is bloody pointless TBH.

DYK

So i can see it p1sses you off...

jonc

So what?

ALi-B

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Shakespear.......English?

Not to me....Latter Medieval poncey pronunciation crammed with so much metaphoric claptrap and similes it takes longer to work it out than it does to read it. By which time the typical reader will have completely forgotten what the plot was all about and needs to re-read the last chapter/scene. Hence why so many modern adaptations of his plays exist; Because the original scripts make no bloody sense they needed to be translated into understandable English.

Playwright...yep. Writer of English literature...pants.

dpb

Since replaced beeb business editor Robert Peston

Starts every sentence with "Well........

Turbohot

Shakespeare was a genius in his field. He was just a very cryptic writer; even for his own time. But if anyone in this century tries to write or speak in his language, he has a screw or two loose in his upper storey.

His contribution to the English Literature is great IMO. You just have to have love for it.

Turbohot

BTW, this^ also props up another side of this English language snobbery. Yes, there're some terrible English speakers and writers about. But then there're some pretentious ones as well that write very big and incomprehensible words here (even when they won't ever use them in their spoken English), just to show off. Not that they're Asperger's or anything, but they just like to look like Shakespeare's relatives. That's bleddy hilarious, and long it may continue.

Turbohot

What gets me is that 'like...", "like..." every two minutes like "This is Essex" sh7t.

Why can't people speak without using the word "like", like?

This is like.........you know, like.............a DJ parrot stuck on his record..........like...........

RA Dunk

For sure!

zip106

Like the numpties that go in a shop / cafe and say ' can I get a .....'

Well yes, of course you can.

Now try saying 'please may I have...'

Carnut

Apparently Shakespeare wasn't able to read and wright and had to dictate all his work. There's not a lot of evidence to back this up but from what little there is it shows he was not even able to spell his name.

Turbohot

Nor can you, you Shakespeare's reincarnation!

LOL Joke.com.

Carnut

OK you got me. But still not quite as funny as everybody using Shakespeare as a yard stick.

Turbohot

Also, the ones who keep concluding their tripe with "Do you get me?", after every thing they say!

"I got really tired on that 21 hr. flight because it was just so long! Do you get me?"
"I got ****z after the Indian meal because my guts can't handle spices, do you get me?"

Noooooooooooo! Never! I don't get you because I'm so effing born effing braindead. Why don't you just do yourself a favour and get yourself away from me and from every living human on this earth who knows how to talk properly??!! Jeez!

Turbohot

To my understanding, people only take a pith when they use him as a yard stick. I bet most of them don't even know a word he ever wrote apart from doing things like- I-eth need-eth Sunday-roast-eth with a pint of Aldi lemonade-eth.

now if anyone models Shakespeare with the 'fact' that you presented about him, they'll be acting highly funny in a strange way. You see, just because Shakespeare the Great couldn't read and write doesn't mean you can't. Shakespeare is no excuse for you to be illiterate. I don't mean you as 'you', Chris JT. I mean anyone.

stevebt

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So this thread , does it have a point?

alcazar

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So........... you don't like the word so?

Tell us more? How does it make you feel?

SJ_Skyline

So I guess that makes you a right so and so, if you get me?

WRX_Dazza

This is a funny thread There is an older bloke who goes down the pub and when he tells you something, he always ends the sentence with "Right" - like he's a fookin headmaster doling (sp) out instructions at a kid !! - I tend to fake an incoming phonecall to divert his lecturing to some other mug...

The Trooper 1815

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So, another thread about grammar or spelling!

Tony Harrington

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DYK

Dodgy stomach on a flight,ewwww...

rossyboy

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Glad it's not just me. I've noticed her doing this for ages.

ALi-B

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Good; As I can't spell his name either

Osimabu

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May I add BBC newsreaders who always say 'George, thank you' rather than 'Thank you, George' to the list of irritations.