That's an interesting one. To me, it sort of conveys an aloofness and hints that there are other choices the driver could have made and that the fact they drove their Ferrari was of no real significance. Using 'my' is more covetous, like it's important to the individual that the car they own is a Ferrari. Or maybe I should lighten up on the wine.
I loathe the use of present continuous tense. Damon Runyon used it to great effect but McDonald's and easily influenced fashionistas make me sick.
You've explained exactly as I meant it, but with much better use of words Did somebody mention wine ?
"I mean" at the start of every sentence is particularly annoying........ ....and watch footballers and their bosses on TV when they are being interviewed.......... "I mean.......etc etc" is always accompanied by head twitches.
I don't respond to questions with "So.....", do you? I don't feel patronised when others do use "so" to start a sentence, it makes me sad that they might be incapable of starting the sentence with any other word (or they have been conned into believing it adds credibility to whatever they are about to say), whether in direct response to a question or not. As far as I'm concerned the word adds nothing to the 'response' and actually detracts from it because I tend to switch off when I hear it.
Another over used word these days------------- Random or randomly, Wtf? Maybe ok if the user is a slightly-behind-the-times 14 year old, but when I read things on here along the lines of "so.... (natch) I randomly went into Ducati Coventry for a light bulb, and came out having bought a zero miles Desmosedici" my toes curl Obviously, to be fair yeah, end of the day right?
