[lit-ideas] Re: Exercise

I *think* that I have never used "arguably" (used as an academic buzzword)
-- it's redundant with the fact that I'm making a statement about whatever
-- whether pro or con.

Julie Krueger




On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I propose a list of words or phrases that are in common parlance that you
> know you've never used.  And possibly some meditation as to why.
>
> To begin.  I don't think I have ever used the phrase "It's only natural
> that."  I don't like such appeals to consensus agreement, particularly when
> they come loaded with implicit moral judgments.
>
> David Ritchie,
> in the hollows of a cold, looking up at the sky and wondering in
> Portland, Oregon
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