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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Most Irritating Buzzwords/Buzzphrases of all time

... . Having said that, ....
As blogging spread, it became common to start to write in a snarky voice with a lot of, well, irritating phrases and sentence structures, like this one.
Really? [for emphasis] "I'm like, really?''
Pronouncing divisive (i as in ice) like divisive (i as in it) instead. I trace it back to Obama. It's an Obamism
The word pivot when used in a political context
Beginning a response to a question with, "So, ..."

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