If another commentator opens his/her narration with the word "So," I will twist a pronoun into my brain.
I recall people using "a level playing field" all the time and bemoaning that ugly little phrase and now, of course, one can't go a day without hearing "they need to put everything on the table."
Dudes, none of this is awesome!
I recall reading the word pivot in a political story and the next thing I knew, pivot was the verb of the month in the mouthy lexicon of the so-called commentators.
I'm sure you have your own little pissy ant complaints about our daily verbal casserole.
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The other grating complaint I have about the verbal antics of TV voices involves any professional athlete or coach.
Question: Well, Dude how did you pull off this win today?
Answer: So, Joe, we had an awesome day and put up more points.
Q.: How did you do that?
A.: We moved the ball more times into the end zone.
Someone actually gets paid to ask these questions and to provide these answers. With such tiny skills for commentary required, no one should be unemployed in the country. We all ought to be working.
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TV people always say snuck when they mean sneaked. They also say who when they mean whom. So, does this habit hurt us? Not a bit. But in the coming apocalpyse, I'd like to disappear listening to
comments that have been through a clean vetting. No reason to go into the afterlife with such bad habits.
On the other hand, our literary heroes who know better also use snuck and who and such. It's a pretty minor complaint in the scheme of things, of course, not up there with the threat of nuclear annihilation, divorce or even a bad rash. More like a little stone in the sandal kind of bitching.
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