Is it just me but does anyone else find the habit of using the words "for sure" at every opportunity intensely annoying? It only seems to be people associated with F1 that use it or use it to excess.
I first noticed Michael Schumacher using it years ago but now everyone seems to have picked up on it even the commentators who should know better!

 

They've been hanging round the Dutch too long for sure .

 

I think it's a continental thing, not just restricted to F1 - it seems to be commonplace among German and (in particular) Dutch people speaking English.

My brother works for the UK arm of a Dutch company and spent some time at the HQ over there - he says that the majority of them speak better English than a lot of English people but they have a habit of dropping strange (to a native English speaker) idioms into conversation, like "for sure".

Perhaps it's a literal translation of something that is common to Dutch and German that is a bit like people saying "you know" or "like" in English?

 

For sure.

 

A lot of the European JFs do this.

I asked some of my French friends about this and they said they were taught it at school.

For sure !

 

Yeah I noticed this as well

But what really annoys me is the Button "from" Alonso "from" Webber

And also DC, JB, P1, Q2 etc yes I understand why but I remember MB saying about 5 acronyms in one sentance FFS

 

Try working in air traffic if you don't like acronyms, we have them for everything and I agree that they are annoying.

 

It does seem to have spread to the British drivers and personnel too. I guess in a lot of ways F1 is its own little world, that develops its own language.

Schumacher often used to say "on the other side", to mean "on the other hand", and things like "I feel for myself, that...", which reflects the German reflexive verbs we don't have in English.

 

Or the Armed Forces...we have TLAs up the ying yang.

The longest one I know of is:

HTHSHTHSHOOTROTDCOTUCAUSDAH

 

Senna used it "For sure our season starts here....." Then he got killed.