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TG
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 02/05/2009 : 09:55:17
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Has anyone else noticed the annoying trend among scientists (in particular) to begin every sentence during an interview with "So, ..."? It's not as bad as listening to someone use "like" as every third word, but it seems to be spreading.
So ... am I just becoming a curmudgeon, or what?
A-Tom-IC
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/05/2009 : 11:36:38 [Permalink]
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| So, the epidemic is the general lack of people skills in the world of science, particularly in the area of layman explanations. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 02/05/2009 : 13:11:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by TG
Has anyone else noticed the annoying trend among scientists (in particular) to begin every sentence during an interview with "So, ..."? It's not as bad as listening to someone use "like" as every third word, but it seems to be spreading.
So ... am I just becoming a curmudgeon, or what?
A-Tom-IC
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Welcome to the club! May you loath as much and sneer at it as often as the rest of our membership.....
I myself especially hate the term "Could care less." Also "Irregardless" and "Misunderestimate" (boy-howdy, did they ever!).
Long live the Glorious Curmudgeon Movements, both cognitive and bowel!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 13:40:32 [Permalink]
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The one that I hear more and more that bugs the crap out of me is "I seen." Look, it's either "I see" or "I've (I have) seen." Never "I seen."
That is all.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 14:58:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
The one that I hear more and more that bugs the crap out of me is "I seen." |
Exactly.
| Look, it's either "I see" or "I've (I have) seen." |
E-x-a-c-t-l-y.
Ex..a..ctly.
Exactly!
Local and state governments should strategically place bins of 2x4's along street corners, stores, buses, etc, so to grab and whop-up-side-the-head anyone that uses the word "Exactly" redundantly.
Exactly.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 15:47:17 [Permalink]
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'Literally'.
This poor word is being molested more than a 7 years old in Vatican City. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 15:56:12 [Permalink]
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"It's like deja vue all over again."
Just how did this classic Yogi Berra redundancy become common the usage for "deja vue"?
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 17:17:34 [Permalink]
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| Quantum leaps are very small; sea changes are slow and predictable; a lightyear is a unit of distance, and the lion's share is all of it. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 17:55:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
The one that I hear more and more that bugs the crap out of me is "I seen." Look, it's either "I see" or "I've (I have) seen." Never "I seen."
That is all.
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You ain't from the South side of Chicago.
Just sayin.
A lot of people down there say "I seen" They also have too-tree beers in a "frontroom".
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 22:21:50 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, writing today often seems to lack what the french would call "I don't know what". |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 01:51:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
Yeah, writing today often seems to lack what the french would call "I don't know what".
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Oui - Je ne sais pas quoi! 
Speaking of scientists, the few scientists I know seem fond of the word "likely". Nothing definitive ever happens but things are more and more "likely" to happen as in "If I let go of this hammer it will likely fall to the ground." |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 04:22:55 [Permalink]
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Another gem of disgust....
"It's a miracle."
The media is in miracle-turbo mode with,
It's a 'Miracle on the Hudson'.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 04:52:06 [Permalink]
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| The worst one probably is "you know what I mean?" every two words. It´s kind of long to be said as often as it is said. |
"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/06/2009 : 06:01:07 [Permalink]
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| My 10th grade history book had the word "moreover" in every other paragraph, it still bugs the hell out of me. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 08:16:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
Originally posted by Hawks
Yeah, writing today often seems to lack what the french would call "I don't know what".
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Oui - Je ne sais pas quoi!
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French would actually say: 'Je ne sais quoi'. 'Je ne sais pas quoi' is just as correct, mind you and, in fact, it is what one would normally expect... But that is not the expression. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 10:14:56 [Permalink]
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| What is up with people typing noone instead of no one! I HATE THAT!!! |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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So … it bugs me
