I'm sure you know people who punctuate everything they say with "Y'know?" I knew one guy who was truly bizarre. He would preface everything with ". . . go ahead and . . ." as in, "Well, I'll just go ahead and read the book. Why don't you go ahead and sit down and I'll go ahead and get us a cup of coffee." It was nerve-wracking.
Of course, some people say things like "Know what I'm saying?" or "Know what I mean?" to punctuate every sentence, and that's equally annoying. Or, as I've mentioned before, the rising intonation at the end of every sentence, as in "I don't want to go out today? Because it's really cold? That's what I told my boss?" which REALLY bugs the hell out of me.
But the topper has to be the Brits. "Yeah". "This is what you gotta do, yeah? You understand, yeah? You heard what I said, yes?"
Me, I like "Hellooo, (*rap on own head*) anybody hoooome???"
I am working on that. I think I do the "go ahead and" Oh no!
ReplyDeleteI just cut the length of one of my blog posts almost in half just by taking out all of the "I think" and "actually"s.
Ahh, the "go ahead and . . ." can't possibly be as bad as the guy I knew. He prefaced practically every verb with it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do the "actually"s quite a lot too, as well as the "as well"s.
I do "as well" as well. : )
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