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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 13 July 2018 at 4:18am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Fair point, Andrew.

I think what irks me with the author I mentioned in my initial post is that he does it a lot. He also has that FUCKING annoying habit of tweeting a political viewpoint and then adding, "Retweet if you agree."

Great, Marcus Chown, does that mean if I don't retweet it, you are presuming I don't agree? Is he implying that we are too STUPID to decide if his tweet warrants a retweet? Surely if his tweets are as good as he claims they are, they'll get retweets, anyway.
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There are a whole bunch of phrases we use without consideration.

• "You know what I think?" An abbreviation of "Do you want to know what I think?" In its form as used, I feel an urge to say "Have you told me before?"

• "I've always..." Well, unless this is something you have been doing since the day you were born, you really haven't "always" done it.

• "I hate..." Do you? Really? Lot of energy in hating.

• "I can't wait..." Sure you can.

• "Literally..." Only. apparently "literally" and "figuatively" have recently become acceptably interchangeable. Yuck.

So many more!!

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Robbie Parry
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The literally one is overused (the UK media reported on this). 

"My heart is literally broken."

(Really? Then I'd call a paramedic, forthwith. You don't have much time left).

Seems redundant in a sense at times, too.

"He literally punched the guy."

(Oh good, I thought he might have figuratively punched the guy during a bar fight).
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Posted: 13 July 2018 at 10:11am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I've seen, more than once, a post on Facebook that says, "Do you ever look at your child and feel your heart literally melt?"

Well, no. If I did, it would mean my child was some kind of horrible mutant monster...and I wouldn't be around for you to ask. 

The ones the post that usually aren't too happy with this reply. 
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The worst most over-used common phrase ever is "do you know what I'm saying" because it's equally condescending and annoying. Usually people that use it a lot aren't saying anything all that difficult to grasp.
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