I cut/pasted the following snippets from one interview I found in a random google search to illustrate what I’m talking about:
“I’m sort of in conversation with another writer from the past that I’m interested in… It’s sort of deliberately rather like the kinds of situations that he himself wrote about a hundred years earlier. So he seemed to me a good sort of presiding spirit to invoke… He wanted everything in the novel to be sort of coordinated and justified…one in which her revolution really sort of assumed tremendous power…I wrote poems with appalling facility, and it was quite a sort of smart thing to do when you’re a schoolboy I think…So I think all sort of energies and observations, things that I was sort of storing up that I might have wanted to put into poems, all went into fiction instead…I was in my mid-30s so I’d sort of levelled out a bit…I think it’s quite a common thing that people write poetry when they’re young and then it sort of gives up on them…I would hear the slightly sort of discouraging noises - typewriter, coming out of his room as I was sitting upstairs trying to think what to write. And then we would sort of meet again for lunch and say, how are you getting on. He was always an extremely focused and determined writer, far more sort of disciplined…Well music has always been very important to me from sort of my early teens really…And I’ve sort of sometimes tried to imitate, and this is a very difficult thing to do…”
I hear this in interviews all the time lately. Makes me mental.
That is all.
That is sort of annoying isn’t it?
I was sort of thinking that it was “d’you know what I mean?”
With some people I’ve encountered, it’s like a verbal tic. It eventually just shortens down to “na mean?” peppered in the beginning, middle and end of each sentence. ugh.
