'For sure'

following on from moth's So, why have people started to begin sentences with thread, I noticed the 'for sure' habit spreading a few years ago on the telly, initially in drivers being interviewed - primarily in Formula 1.

eg
Interviewer: So Alonso, tell us about the rain today - did it affect your race?
Alonso: Well for sure I had to be careful on the throttle out of the Jim Clarke bend or I could have been in the wall
Interviewer: And tell us about the near miss with Hamilton as he exited the pits - did you touch wheels?
Alonso: That was a very close thing and for sure I thought we were going to touch, but in the end I gave him space, and we both made it through ok.

Now the thing is, it's become so prevalent I'm not sure if it is acceptable, and I'm a bit odd for thinking it's out of place, or not. I'm sure when I first started hearing it it wasn't normal, and it was only the foreign drivers that spoke like that - but now they all do

I recall hearing it lots of times on BSB and WSB. Trying to remember the name of the main culprits? Hodgson was one.

I blame this guy...

Originally Posted by demographic

I blame this guy...

For sure

Originally Posted by moth

For sure

I am veery appy, for sure.

Hello? People?

This is the internets. It is "fo sho", innit?

Gonna made me a sammich, fo sho, biatch. And shizzle.

It's a Latin language thing - you can't directly translate it.
International fail.

Originally Posted by Ed Safado

It's a Latin language thing - you can't directly translate it.
International fail.

Whoa, gnarly, there must have been one hell of a lot of Latin W.A.S.P. surfers in California in the '80s, Dude. Like, fur shur.

Originally Posted by murcan

Whoa, gnarly, there must have been one hell of a lot of Latin W.A.S.P. surfers in California in the '80s, Dude. Like, fur shur.

quite. And Harry Stottle probably thought, 'oi you young pretender-that's my oratorical device you're abusing there. cuddly wuddly beary beary booio'

Originally Posted by CoolHands

I'm sure when I first started hearing it it wasn't normal, and it was only the foreign drivers that spoke like that - but now they all do

The first time I heard it it was people like Schwantz and Kocinski, very much a Yank thing, that seemed to spread through the GP paddock like a disease. And then it infected F1, too.

Originally Posted by Ed Safado

It's a Latin language thing - you can't directly translate it.
International fail.

Nam, displosa sonat quantum vesica, pepedi
diffissa nate ficus

At the end of the day WGAF, if you know what I mean?

Originally Posted by murcan

Whoa, gnarly, there must have been one hell of a lot of Latin W.A.S.P. surfers in California in the '80s, Dude. Like, fur shur.

Different usage.
Brazilians say it a lot - "com certeza" and they didn't pick it up from American surfers. As do Spanish-speaking countries.
"Fo sho" as used by African Americans is also independent of this.
You're going to ask for links/facts/proof now aren't you?

Look, if you're going to start on annoying language constructs, you could at least start with the desire to preface every sentence with "Look"

It's endemic here, far more common than the supposed upward inflection at the end of sentences (only teenagers do that), and way more annoying

Michael Schumacher was definitely using it in the mid 90s and, for sure, a lot during the late 90s onwards.
Pretty sure but not for sure that Prost etc were using it as a common turn of phrase in the early 90s.
When I was living in Monaco at the start of the noughties ( ) many of the residents were using it...to an annoying extent.