With the takeover of ‘reporting’ on TV news by young ladies continuing apace, I though I’d pop in to ‘report’ on two entertaining uses of our language I overheard just this morning. One related to the ongoing farrago concerning Harry and sparkles and was delivered by some Royal family watcher and reporter. After the obligatory ‘Well’ and a few rambling words, came the statement ‘...they will really probably...’ Definitely finger on the pulse stuff right there.
Secondly was a young lady reporter giving her in-depth reporting regarding the shooting down of the passenger aircraft which she described as being ‘...shot down from the air...’ I gave thanks for the clarification as to where the plane had been when shot down. To me, that one is as good as the one a while back when a ship was breathlessly reported as being ‘Outside the harbour waiting on the water...’
I wonder if all these ‘reporters’ need to attend some sort of English course, to make up for the English classes they obviously missed while at school, covering how it should be writed down and how it’s read – for read, read red - out-loud and spoked. Or should I just accept the fact that I’m an old fellow who should stop nitpicking such stuff and just let the young talk like wot they want to?
Finally, off-topic but worth a watch;
Quote; Brian Regan.
“How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."”
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