[Humour] Starting a sentence with ' Look or Listen '

[Swansman]

I occasionally do (the Swedish versions, "kolla här..", "lyssna nu..") it if someone is panicking about something and I really need to reach to them and calm down but its sort of like the case with exclamations marks, you can use them a handful of times in a lifetime or you've overdone it.

 

[hart's shirt]

Look Now Look All Around

...there's no sign of life....

Clearly Duran Duran were singing about football stadia in late 2020.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

My mate says "right" after every sentence when arguing a point. Almost a Monty Python style "am i right?"

He's looking for affirmation, people who do this have low self confidence and need their beliefs validated. It's the same as people who say 'eh' (ey) after their sentence in Aus, NZ, America etc

'that was cool eh', 'itd be fun to do that again eh'

 

[maresfield seagull]

...there's no sign of life....

Clearly Duran Duran were singing about football stadia in late 2020.

Voices ?
Another Sound ?

 

[Jeremiah]

This was always something i associated with Australians but since the pandemic i have subconsciously started to do it quite frequently whilst answering someone.

I seems to have crept in over here now, unless i've not really noticed it before

It was started by Ricky Ponting who used it after every word containing a vowel - FACT

 

[vegster]

This was always something i associated with Australians but since the pandemic i have subconsciously started to do it quite frequently whilst answering someone.

I seems to have crept in over here now, unless i've not really noticed it before

Very true, had crept in over the last few years, started with Aussie cricketers and pundits " Aw, look mate......"

 

[vegster]

It was started by Ricky Ponting who used it after every word containing a vowel - FACT

David Beckham was famous for always saying " You Know " every few words.... a post match interview would go along the lines of ... " well, you know West Ham were always going to come at us but you know we have the players, you know, to hurt them, you know and you know that you know we always had something in reserve you know to be better than them you know. "

 

[saintquin]

Another one I find strange is when people start a sentence with Yeah no.
I'm sure there are going to be more new ones to annoy in years to come but, I don't understand why because the English language has been evolving since it began!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

"To be honest" can give the impression that the person using it generally isn't.

Steve Macmanamanamanaman uses 'To be very honest' a great deal. I think that may be scouse for 'This is the first thing I've said for a while that isn't a total lie'.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Another one I find strange is when people start a sentence with Yeah no.
I'm sure there are going to be more new ones to annoy in years to come but, I don't understand why because the English language has been evolving since it began!

Yes that's a shitter

Something I have noticed creep in during the last 10 years is people reply to a question of the sort 'how was your journey home' with 'yeah....the traffic wasn't too bad'.

Why the 'yeah'? FFS.

(Mrs T does it )