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What on earth is it with this phrase?!
For sure, I first noticed it increasing in popularity last year. Massa was the main culprit, for sure. But since then, everyone seems to have caught a case of the for sure's! It seems no one can be interviewed without getting it in there at least once? It appears to be useful in any context what so ever!
Surprisingly, last weeks post-race press conference only seemed to contain 2 instances, one from SV and one from JB. For sure we will see more next time.
For sure, it is slowly driving me mad! I cannot be the only that has noticed this, for sure?
For sure, I first noticed it increasing in popularity last year. Massa was the main culprit, for sure. But since then, everyone seems to have caught a case of the for sure's! It seems no one can be interviewed without getting it in there at least once? It appears to be useful in any context what so ever!
Surprisingly, last weeks post-race press conference only seemed to contain 2 instances, one from SV and one from JB. For sure we will see more next time.
For sure, it is slowly driving me mad! I cannot be the only that has noticed this, for sure?
forsure said:
Can't say I'd noticed it myself...
crossle said:
Where have you been for the last twenty years?
That's about how long this pointless phrase has been bandied about in F1, and about how long it's been driving me up the wall...
How much detail do I need to go into? From approx 1984-1988 I was in primary school... That's about how long this pointless phrase has been bandied about in F1, and about how long it's been driving me up the wall...
It is only something that I've noticed over the past few years but recently, for sure, it has become rather infuriating!
stew-S160 said:
For sure, that's the only championship that Ferrari are in contention for this year.I first noticed this phenomenon when J. Villeneuve entered F1 in the Nineties.
stew-S160 said:
Shows that it's not just limited to drivers without English as their first language!
I hate this too!!! Thank god it's not just me. For sure, I thought it was a foreign thing. A lack of skill in English, for sure. But then Button started for suring. I struggle to get through post race interviews, for sure.
It's nearly as irritating as people who use reflective pronouns out of a misguided sense of politeness. "Hello, how are you?". "I'm fine, and how is yourself?" Arrrggggghh!. I visibly cringe everytime I hear it, for sure.
It's nearly as irritating as people who use reflective pronouns out of a misguided sense of politeness. "Hello, how are you?". "I'm fine, and how is yourself?" Arrrggggghh!. I visibly cringe everytime I hear it, for sure.
It's very common with German speakers where they want to use the word "sicher" or a variant thereof to say certain or certainly or confident or something in that line of thought but are mistranslating. First person I really noticed it with was Walter Röhrl but I can well believe that Lauda used this earlier.
The thing many English speakers don't appreciate is that just because a person's spoken and written English may be very good it doesn't mean that their understanding of spoken English is as good. Thus it can help their understanding when one speaks in English there is an element of adjusting and simplifying your own language to fit with the way their own language works.
Therefore after a lot of years living and working with furriners I can well imagine how a phrase like this and others has stuck with Jenson. Yes I know his team is UK based but even so bet there are a lot of people who do not have English as a first language. It becomes so common to simplify what you say and how you say it that you can forget when speaking to native English speakers.
HTH
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The thing many English speakers don't appreciate is that just because a person's spoken and written English may be very good it doesn't mean that their understanding of spoken English is as good. Thus it can help their understanding when one speaks in English there is an element of adjusting and simplifying your own language to fit with the way their own language works.
Therefore after a lot of years living and working with furriners I can well imagine how a phrase like this and others has stuck with Jenson. Yes I know his team is UK based but even so bet there are a lot of people who do not have English as a first language. It becomes so common to simplify what you say and how you say it that you can forget when speaking to native English speakers.
HTH
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