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November 12, 2008
Overnight Thread
Been kinda quiet 'round here today.
Here's a topic: Oxford's New List of Top Ten Irritating Phrases
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science
I would add the words "basically" and "essentially" used at the beginning of an explanation. Either use is superfluous. They're placeholders, a more erudite "um" that many people somehow learned to tack on to the front of their statements.
posted by Gabriel Malor at
01:08 AM
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