Listening to a Reporter, she said, "You Know, at least 15 times in a 4 minute report

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No, I don’t know. That is why I am listening to your report…“You Know”?
I suppose it becomes habit, and they do not realise they say it so often.

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I often wonder how some “presenters” get or even keep their jobs. This morning on local radio the traffic report included an item saying there was only one lane open on a certain road - the person doing the report had to stop in order to explain to the presenter how traffic travelling in both directions could use one lane - in the end the traffic reporter just gave up and continued with his report!

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My biggest bug bear … People saying “you know what I mean” “like” “um”
When I was at school we would get demerits if we didn’t use the Queen’s English.

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Strangely enough,i do not like it when people start a sentence with the word SO…

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" You Know"
An Irritating ‘Chunk’ Conversation.
Used by those who express. They ‘Seem’ to Know. But the other may not.
Confirming if, on the same wavelength, to continue the dialogue as is.
Or an opportunity for the originator to enhance. >> https://youtu.be/qXhoYywK3nw

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Listening to a Reporter, she said, “You Know, at least 15 times in a 4 minute report

If that is the case, it’s fair to say that it is wanted by those in charge, otherwise they wouldn’t accept it. It sounds familiar and you can observe a similar trend over here, too. Informality is king and that includes the way the language is used.
Formal language is increasingly being frowned upon and tends to be replaced by an informal style no matter what the situation is. One manifestation of this is the fact that people in general and presenters in particular use all sorts of fillers equivalent to “you know” in English so as to sound informal. It needs to be added, though, that this phenomenon is more typical of some TV channels and also has to do with their target groups, the time of day at which a format is shown, and with employment conditions. There also seems to be a need to offer a simplified variant of the language quite often. The underlying reasons for this development are not hard to identify.

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Thank you for posting the link.

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TV news presenters don’t know when is is better to say less.

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