Do I do this? Several people I know have this annoying habit of saying "here" every few minutes. In particular someone I know prays: "we're here, thanking you God, for this day here..."
And here (aha ha ha) are a few examples of work related here-ings that I don't understand.
I am a medical doctor in St. John's Newfoundland and will be giving a presentation on Crystal Meth here.
I am interested in doing my part to clean up the city I live in here. I need to know more of how I go about doing this.
So why do people do this? In the first example it's a superfluous word. In the second example I had really no idea where the writer's "here" is and couldn't help him.
2 comments:
Here is a deictic word the understanding of which totally depends on the context it is used within. When ‘here’ is used in spoken language then the ‘here’ usually refers to the location where the speaker is while uttering the sentence. Is ‘here’ used in written language then it has to be explained in the course of the context. If the explanation appears prior the ‘here’ then the ‘here’ is anaphoric otherwise the linguists speak of a cataphoric use of the ‘here’.
Hopefully :-)
Wow... well, now we all know! :)
I had to look up deictic, anaphoric and cataphoric, and decided that using 'here' twice in a sentence still sounds stupid.
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