No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed

[Tommy Tainant]

No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed

"Going forward" tops the list of words and phrases people want "banished" from the dictionary.

www.bbc.co.uk

Some real stinkers on this list. I really hate sentences staarting with "So".
The rest of the list is pretty horrific and shows how language can be abused to basically lie to us.

 

[basquebromance]

"let me be clear" i don't like. Obama started the trend

 

[Tommy Tainant]

"let me be clear" i don't like. Obama started the trend

My bad is another. Awful stuff. I would punch my kids in the face if they said any of these.
They are all politicians phrases used to dress up the threadbare nature of what they are saying.

 

[ESay]

Oops, what is wrong with 'so' and 'basically'? I often use them in my sentences.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Oops, what is wrong with 'so' and 'basically'? I often use them in my sentences.

"So" makes you sound officious. "Basically" implies that you are talking to a moron.

 

[ESay]

"So" makes you sound officious. "Basically" implies that you are talking to a moron.

Strange, I often use 'basically' when I partially agree with the point, but want to make my objections.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Strange, I often use 'basically' when I partially agree with the point, but want to make my objections.

It can be used to clarify a jumble of thoughts. Generally it is used to give your version of what the other has said. IE what you wanted them to say.

 

[luiza]

No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed

"Going forward" tops the list of words and phrases people want "banished" from the dictionary.

www.bbc.co.uk

Some real stinkers on this list. I really hate sentences staarting with "So".
The rest of the list is pretty horrific and shows how language can be abused to basically lie to us.

More Tummy garbage with at most one out of the ten words/phrases fitting your made-up suggestion .
Did you actually look at the list and think whether there were common points of underlying identity? Of course not, otherwise you would not have written that absurd conclusion .

Some smack of" gobbledygook new-speak" , others seem patronising and reek of being insincere .
But there is no hint of a conspiracy to evolve language into ways of lying .

You regularly manage that all by yourself .

 

[Anomalism]

Y'all motherfuckers will complain about anything.

 

[luiza]

Y'all motherfuckers will complain about anything.

He's a tent squatter in a football car park so he has become rather bitter.

Letting all the goals in , Tummy?
I expect you feel rather Messi.