All these utterances annoy me.
Looking forward into the future.
At this moment in time.
Reverse back.. Often used in relation to someone telling a driver where to park.
‘Christened’ instead of ‘naming’ in all sorts of situations but one example I will never forget. I heard a BBC reporter who was in Baghdad after the invasion saying that the hitherto-named Sadam City had be ‘re-christened’ ‘Sadr City’ ..after the Shia cleric, politician and militia leader Muqtada al- Sadra , a Muslim,of course. The mind boggles.
What time is it now ?
Eg. France is the only country, apart from....in which case it’s not the only country, then. You could apply this to ‘the tallest (buildings) longest, worst etc.
See you later.. which, to me, means in a few hours but that’s not what is meant. Maybe this is regional. I can’t recall hearing it in the north west where I grew up.
Similar to the moan by Tigger.ufo above post, about ‘unique’. ..it either is or isn’t . How many times do we hear tv reporters ..for example, say “ It’s the most perfect example I’ve seen” Perfection is an absolute,there are no degrees of perfection.
Bad grammar by some football pundits, those who sit alongside the commentators . I hear comments such as “He should have went to his left”
Not in this category but one of the many hilarious comments by the commentator John Motson..Motty.... at a game involving Spurs.He called the German Spurs midfielder, Steffan Freund..pronounced Froint ....Frunt..it went like this.. Frunt to Ferdinand to Sherwood and back to Frunt..lol.
Another habit is the way tv reporters ask questions of people when they already know the answer. An example I can give is when Somerset suffered severe floooding as a result of several Atlantic storms from December 2013 into January. A resident was standing outside a badly flooded home,not his and the reporter asked him if he’d been affected knowing he had. ‘Yes, I have” he said, the reporter then asked what happened. It does annoy me. Why couldn’t the reporter have just said “ and you’ve been affected yourself ..could you tell me about it ?” It’s so contrived.
One more.. These incidences really bother me more than annoy me. The way Five Live interrupt serious interviews to go to their correspondents at sports events. The worst,for me, was when a 95 year old lady was being asked about her experience and that of her family in Auschwitz. It was, as you’d expect, extremely harrowing. The interviewer,I won’t name the person who is well known and a top rate, well-respected host, apologised for stopping her because quote..another wicket had fallen in Australia. Not the interviewer’s fault who,judging from her contrite tone, felt badly about her instructions taken through her earpiece/headphones. The contrast from the gravitas of the conversation to an excited cricket commentator was not only stark but wholly inappropriate. I blame the producer/editorial staff. What made it worse was that the conversation finished minutes later. Nothing’s changed, by the way.
Clearly, quite a lot of things annoy me..Ugh.