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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Where did the nauseating phrases, "that being said", "that having been said", "having said that", "that said" come from, "all of a sudden"? And what did they replace? Handy, perhaps, but extremely irritating.
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Perhaps I have a stronger stomach than you do, but I don't feel the least bit nauseated when I hear them. They're simply ways of warning a listener that the speaker is going to backtrack a bit, perhaps, and modify what has just been said. What they imply is probably more irritating that what they actually say, for my money.
- Perhaps I have a stronger stomach than you do, but I don't feel the least bit nauseated when I hear them.
- They're simply ways of warning a listener that the speaker is going to backtrack a bit, perhaps, and modify what has just been said.
- What they imply is probably more irritating that what they actually say, for my money.
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Perhaps I have a stronger stomach than you do, but I don't feel the least bit nauseated when I hear them. They're simply ways of warning a listener that the speaker is going to backtrack a bit, perhaps, and modify what has just been said. What they imply is probably more irritating that what they actually say, for my money.
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Anonymous... come from, "all of a sudden"?Maybe you have just recently become aware of these useful linking phrases. They are not at all new; they have been around for hundreds of years. I don't know of anyone else who has such a visceral reaction to any sort of phrase. There are too many other real annoyances in life without adding more. Personally, I fi
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