Bad Language
I know, I know - I have no one but myself to blame.
If I will listen to Today on the radio on the way to work I will inevitably hear things that annoy me, but usually they're just things like interviewers being crap or John Humphreys.
But today I was running later than usual and consequently was still tuned in when Thought For The Day came round.
The pompous, smug piety of the standard Thought provider would be enough to grate at the best of times, but the thing that really send me over the edge is the way they abuse their language in an effort to add effect to their sanctimonious drivel.
This morning's woman was making great play of the fact that if we're made in God's image then we're apparently full of the greatest love in the yadda yadda yadda. The linguistic convolutions she was indulging in rendered whatever message she was trying to convey entirely obscure, but it was a simple over-egging of a straightforward detail that finally finished me off:
"For hundreds and thousands of years...."
So - for thousands of years then?