Thanks Fire. I thought as much though most people incorrectly put the stress on Manic rather than Street.
I heard a broadcaster on the BBC once put the stress on the second word rather than the first when saying animal lover. Boy, that changed the meaning! I also notice on TV an obsession with stressing you or your even when there is no need. Similarly the word ‘and’ is usually over emphasised before the last item in a list making it sound like the final thing is bizarre but true.
Another trait I have witnessed is an unnecessarily exaggerated pause after the first three or four words when a character speaks in TV dramas. Once you notice these things they start to niggle.
Don't you wish you could speed some speakers up like you could on the old record players 33 -78? Some people stop after every phrase to give you time to absorb every nuance of their very interesting story. It drives me 😵
BIL can spend 30 minutes describing an over of cricket he played 40 or 50 years ago and can be very slow and deliberate when talking about other stuff. To my horror, OH has recently started talking very slowly with lots of pauses. Can't decide if he's posing, emulating, pausing cos he's lost his thread or just thinks he's fascinating. Will have to have words.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
You don’t hear the word aggro so much these days but, based on a misunderstanding of the words aggravation and irritation, telling someone their aggro causes me irro would only inflame the situation.
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What is this thing called, Love?
I dedicate this book to my parents, God, and Margaret Thatcher.
I dedicate this book to my parents, God and Margaret Thatcher.
Something that puzzles me, were the Manic Street Preachers a) Street preachers who were manic or b) Preachers from Manic Street?
I heard a broadcaster on the BBC once put the stress on the second word rather than the first when saying animal lover. Boy, that changed the meaning! I also notice on TV an obsession with stressing you or your even when there is no need. Similarly the word ‘and’ is usually over emphasised before the last item in a list making it sound like the final thing is bizarre but true.
Another trait I have witnessed is an unnecessarily exaggerated pause after the first three or four words when a character speaks in TV dramas. Once you notice these things they start to niggle.