I know I should just let it go, but when I hear the newscaster speak of “the legacy (blank) left behind” (as if legacies are other than left behind), the traffic person say someone is “heading south-bound” (because if he just said “heading south” or “southbound” we wouldn’t get that progress in a certain a direction was being suggested), or the weather person state without a hint of embarrassment that the temperature is “now currently 65 degrees” I want to scream!
Then there’s the commercial for an asthma preparation that is “already pre-mixed.” I once had a teacher of pastel painting who constantly said “also too,” as if either “also” or '“too” alone would not convey that he was adding something.
What common redundancies irritate you? Or am I the only one neurotic enough to take any notice?
Um? I’m trying to picture any of the grownups I know feeling that a teenager was condescending to them–trying, and failing utterly.
And as long as I’m sitting here browsing the Beeb, yet another nitwit thing to say. “Former cabinet minister Mo Mowlam has called for the legalisation of all drugs - including ecstasy, heroin and cocaine…” and she opines:
Jim and I were just discussing this the other day, when I went to get some cash money from the ATM machine, just after we finished discussing how the AIDS syndrome may or may not be linked to the HIV virus. Then we went to buy a CD disk, which I’m also able to play in my PC computer.
As an added bonus, how about the line from wooden psychology lecturer that woke up his students with the welcome request:’ And now let me finish with one final conclusion.’
