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 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 9:07 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I watch some YouTube video channels and I've notice lately some ppl end every sentence with a question. And more specifically with the same word. There's a lady that ends every sentence with "Right?". Another guy ends every sentence with "Okay?". Is this a new phenomenon in English dialect?

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 11:37 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

OMG, it's been driving me nuts. I watch a lot of MSNBC and some of those pundits and the emphatic statements they make, followed immediately by "Right?" It's as if they're not waiting for you to agree with them, just assuming what they're saying is correct and uncontestable, and of course you agree. Sometimes it's unlistenable and I have to switch to something else.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 3:00 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Since you noticed this too, I must conclude it's becoming wide spread.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 3:41 PM   
 By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member)

Bad speech habits have been around for a very long time, okay? It's nothing new, okay? I have a friend who ends nearly every sentence with, you know what I mean? Another who ends sentences with, and everything like that. And another friend who ends with, this, that, and so on and so forth. All of this drives me crazy, know what I mean? And that's generally a pretty short trip, right? I can't stand listening to it, okay? But I'm surrounded by people who talk like this all the time, and everything like that.
I would hope that professionals would know better, okay? But I guess they don't, right? And this, that, and so on and so forth.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:00 PM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

I watch some YouTube video channels and I've notice lately some ppl end every sentence with a question. And more specifically with the same word. There's a lady that ends every sentence with "Right?". Another guy ends every sentence with "Okay?". Is this a new phenomenon in English dialect?



it's more and more widespread. Annoying as hell. "Know what I'm sayin' ?" is the most irritating, as usually you have no clue what they're trying to say.

But it isn't just younger people. I've noticed TV chef Tyler Florence ends darn near every sentence with ' mmmkay?"

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:16 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Like, you know.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:27 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Yeah, the word...like, in nearly every sentence, or in an old interview with Britney Spears, in every sentence.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Beware also of people - common in england - who start a moaning sentence about someone with... "im not being funny right, but..." and be assured they are... !!

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:33 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Ive also seen a guy public speaking who says Ok, right ...or Right, ok? At the beginning or end of every sentence ...or both!!

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 4:51 PM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

Ive also seen a guy public speaking who says Ok, right ...or Right, ok? At the beginning or end of every sentence ...or both!!

You mean that orange-hair dude who talks to everyone on a 4th grade level? Hey, he's gonna make everything great, just trust him, right? Right? OK.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 6:56 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Well, I'm just glad you guys all say and write things absolutely perfectly at all times.

wink

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 7:43 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Well, I'm just glad you guys all say and write things absolutely perfectly at all times.

wink


I'm no English major and I don't play one on the internet. At the same time I don't end every written or spoken sentence with the same word. I think it's a "bad habit" for those that do.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 8:33 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

Try watching The West Wing sometime. They make whole conversations out of okay.

"Okay?"
"Okay."
"Okay!"
"Okay?"

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2016 - 11:48 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Well, I'm just glad you guys all say and write things absolutely perfectly at all times.

wink


I'm no English major and I don't play one on the internet. At the same time I don't end every written or spoken sentence with the same word. I think it's a "bad habit" for those that do.



Oh, I'm just teasing. (Hence, the "winky" eye.) The things you guys mention all bug me too, and I pray I don't catch myself doing them in conversation.

 
 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 6:35 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

I hate it when Glasgow girls are telling a story about something they consider strange - usually someone else's comment ot behaviour - and when they're telling you the story they punctuate it with "Ah wiz like THAT!", and they pull a sort of face which evokes exaggerated surprise or disgust.

 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 6:41 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

So, people don't like okay ending sentences, right? ;-)


I can live with it, but what I find annoying is how often -- I even make this mistake, but try not to -- people pronounce "for" as "fur".

 
 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 6:45 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

So, people don't like okay ending sentences, right? ;-)


I can live with it, but what I find annoying is how often -- I even make this mistake, but try not to -- people pronounce "for" as "fur".


Haw Justin, where ah come frae, it IS actually "fur"! Like when the big Glesgae lassies are tellin' ye a story, an' they go "Ah wiz like that, fur fucksake!"

 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 6:49 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Well, I'm just glad you guys all say and write things absolutely perfectly at all times.


Only FSMers who begin a post with "Actually..." when they're "correcting" someone else do that. You'll find a lot of that behavior on the General Discussion side of the olde board, usually when a few oldsters gabble on about which film was or wasn't a roadshow production or whether or not stereo masters for some crap Golden Age raucous by Max Steiner still exist.

 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 7:05 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

Actually, of the FSMers, only the oldsters are interesting, and the only ones who remember who Jim Phelps was.

 
 Posted:   May 7, 2016 - 7:20 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Actually, of the FSMers, only the oldsters are interesting, and the only ones who remember who Jim Phelps was.

That's all the more impressive when one bothers to remember that the brains of said oldsters are addled with either Thalidomide or LSD.

 
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