Gem Genie
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Gilly. Why is she so lazy with her speech with this word "brand" when in many respects she has very good diction?
It drives me doolally.
It drives me doolally.
I see "Bran New" is on again.
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BusyLizzie
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I like Jilly but must admit her diction irritates me too. As well as "bran" there's also "gonna" and that drives me nuts!
Also "bought" when it should be "bRought". It makes me want to scream. Perhaps I should get out more!
SparklyBarbs
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Its funny, but i never notice the sppech, i just sorta listen, but let it pass be by IYKWIM (he he. just read what i wrote/written
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Don't forget the....Ten, twenny, thirly, forly, fifty, sixty, sevenny etc
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She's just said that monstrosity of a top is a George Simonton - poor Jilly :grin:
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She seems to have caught the "yeah, yeah, yeah" bug which I hadn't noticed before.
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It's "in this hour" in every sentence that annoys me and to a lesser extent "o,k" said with an upward inflection question mark.
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Neighbours was to blame for this! UK has never been the same since especially TV presenters
Oh, so do I DJ. I seem to remember that students used to do it a lot(too much time spent watching Neighbours) JR was the presenter who did it most frequently and I've heard her do it recently. Why?
Gem Genie
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I always thought that the upward inflexion at the end of sentences was an Americanism. I also hate this way of speaking that young people adopt in parts of London that makes them sound like ghetto members.
What the heck has happened to our lovely language?
What the heck has happened to our lovely language?
BusyLizzie
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Don't know but I wish all the presenters would talk proper like wot I do........:wink:
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I think it is just a general Australian thing and since Neighbours was so big with young teens it changed the speech pattern of whole generation
I have been wanting to comment on this for ages! I was watching her presenting last week, I think it was with Lenny, and I got to the point that I couldn't stand listening to her any more. Thank you Gem Genie for this post. I really hope that Jilly reads this and is prompted to address her Mid-Atlantic accent. I will only watch anything she is presenting on MUTE.
Phew, I feel better for that. No other presenter has irritated me as much for a very long time. Tweny, thirdy-ade, fordy, adey..........:headbang:
no it's aussie. it drives me nuts too and i refer to it as 'moronic interrogation'.
having said that, although i know what you mean by jilly's 'ok' it's not the same type of inflection.
i like jilly
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Misread the title and wondered who Brian New was.
It's not half as annoying as Dale with his "as you can see here/there" and "look at it" Was watching the other day when he seemed to flip out and go into a sort of autopilot loop. Seriously, he must have said it 8 times or more.
"So we have here, look at it, as you can see there, phenomenal, there, as you can see here, look, there, as you can see here, it's just marvellous isn't it? Again, there as you can see there, 554621 is the item number and here....as you can see here. Again, look as you can see here, again, look at it."
Aargh!
It's not half as annoying as Dale with his "as you can see here/there" and "look at it" Was watching the other day when he seemed to flip out and go into a sort of autopilot loop. Seriously, he must have said it 8 times or more.
"So we have here, look at it, as you can see there, phenomenal, there, as you can see here, look, there, as you can see here, it's just marvellous isn't it? Again, there as you can see there, 554621 is the item number and here....as you can see here. Again, look as you can see here, again, look at it."
Aargh!
