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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 332983" data-attributes="member: 33">This one isn&#039;t really about grammar and it&#039;s not really wrong but I&#039;m finding it increasingly annoying.I often watch a TV quiz show called Pointless and I&#039;ve previously mentioned how irritating it is that so many contestants on the programme unnecessarily start sentences with the word &quot;so&quot;. My latest bugbear is how many of them use the word &quot;my&quot; unnecessarily to describe things that aren&#039;t exclusively theirs. When asked what they like doing in their spare time they often say things like &quot;I like my sport&quot; or &quot;I like my soap operas&quot; or &quot;I like my gardening&quot;. No, you like sport/soaps/gardening or you like certain types of sport/soaps/gardening but &quot;my sport&quot;?&nbsp; &quot;My soaps?&quot; &quot;My gardening?&quot; Really? Do people actually say that in real life? I&#039;ve only ever heard people speak like that on TV. On a recent episode, much to my annoyance, of the 8 contestants, 6 of them (75%!) used that phraseology which would have had me pulling my hair out if I didn&#039;t have a shaven head.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s just me but I find it incredibly infuriating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 332983, member: 33"] This one isn't really about grammar and it's not really wrong but I'm finding it increasingly annoying. I often watch a TV quiz show called [I]Pointless[/I] and I've previously mentioned how irritating it is that so many contestants on the programme unnecessarily start sentences with the word "so". My latest bugbear is how many of them use the word "my" unnecessarily to describe things that aren't exclusively theirs. When asked what they like doing in their spare time they often say things like [I]"I like my sport"[/I] or [I]"I like my soap operas"[/I] or [I]"I like my gardening"[/I]. No, you like sport/soaps/gardening or you like certain types of sport/soaps/gardening but "my sport"? "My soaps?" "My gardening?" Really? Do people actually say that in real life? I've only ever heard people speak like that on TV. On a recent episode, much to my annoyance, of the 8 contestants, 6 of them (75%!) used that phraseology which would have had me pulling my hair out if I didn't have a shaven head. Maybe it's just me but I find it incredibly infuriating. [/QUOTE]

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