Funny Cerebral Stuff: Words to Hate, and if You Don’t Already Hate Them, You Can Start Hating Them Today
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 29, 2011
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Need a non-Black Friday, non-Occupy Wall Street, non-Obama laugh today?
Devilishly wry posting at House of Eratosthenes, I Totally Hate These Words… here’s the first entry:
1. Totally
Devoid of purpose. It is a linguistic tool, conceived for the purpose of complementing a verb, stipulating a condition of completeness. So it’s a synonym of “completely.” It’s further redundant with a number of others, depending on context. Like “unerringly,” “overwhelmingly,” “impressively” and “notably.”Unlike those, however, the t-word is prone to abuse. Over half the time it is used, the verb it is complementing is “respect”; and in those instances, it is used to impress a talkative young lady, by a cynical and exploitative young man, for the purpose of getting in her pants. It is, to coin a phrase, used to express a condition of super-duper-duper-empathy.
Talkative young women aren’t as impressed with empathy as most young guys think, so for the most part this isn’t even effective. It’s just an insult for someone’s intelligence, and nothing else.
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