Tomasz Schafernaker just (on 2/9/09, which your complaints engine will not accept) told us we might want to get "that barbecue" out.
Now either he suggests that we have more than one apiece, or he is unaware of the word "your" or this is yet another petty over dramatisation of the
weather report, as common elsewhere.
Over uses of "that" and "those" are commonly made to suggest sycophancy, or precocity/preciousness.
Obviously another weather presenter has set the standard for all this, and there are others in other areas who have led the way.
There is far too much of it, kindly desist.
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And the BBC would be a merrier place.
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It pays to be over fussy sometimes, I think you are quite right to blow a fuse. The Beeb will be overprotective of their own though, don't you see?
ReplyDeleteIt is worth bearing in mind that the BBC is a little country in its own right , the envoys of E-maildom and Complainticum will always prevaricate and mouth pleasantries back to you.
The job slots have to be justified!