- "Thank you"
- "My bad"
- "I am not familiar with the subject so I have no opinion on it"
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On point number 3, I once got dunked on for saying that I didn't know anything about the subject at hand when asked. The other person told me "Well, that's just a cop out. Just make something up!"
edit: clarification
I petition to bring back regular use of Kerfuffle.
I'll sign that petition no doubt
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"Wow isn't life great since we went to the 3 day working week!"
Verisimilitude. It's just nice.
It's a good word! How would you use it in a sentence?
Poorly! As I'm currently high and do not feel confident using it correctly!
Looks cool though!
I'm less high now!
I normally use it when talking about miniatures and toy train setups.
"The miniature painted conifers with bits of snow really have the scene verisimilitude"
I could still be very wrong.
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"lambasts" or "pillories" instead of "slams" in news headlines
How about “threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table” instead of “slams”
lambasts
Lambastes?
"I was wrong"
I love being wrong, it's the gateway to new knowledge, but other people view not knowing through a self-esteem lens
Call it cheesy, but people need to tell each other "I love you" more often.
Funny, I was gonna say "cheesy", but I mean "cheesy" literally, because I'm hungry
"Hi nice to meet you I'm your soulmate and future wife and I'm going to fix you and we'll help fix the world together"
(i mean if someone said that exact phrase to me I'd probably run screaming lol. But you know.)
I've always been partial to there- and where-compounds (thereupon, therefrom, wherein, etc.).
"I don't know."
If we were honest, it's the thing we should all be saying and hearing all day long. But it's not. Quite the opposite, it's among the rarest. Instead, people are shooting their certainties at one another, relentlessly.
Not knowing something or not having an opinion on a question is not an issue. It's to be expected, even if we were all geniuses (I'm certainly not one). Not doing the work to inform oneself could potentially be an issue but should not be as long we don't pretend otherwise. It's when one pretends to know, based on what one has heard someone else say, or because one wants to push a specific narrative that suits them, that shit starts hitting the fan. That's when living together turn into the stinking shit hole it has turned into in which lies are fine (when they're not adored) and facts have become suspicious if not dangerous.
Obviously, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Gadzooks. It's just such a fun phrase.
I love it! I'm also pretty fond of words like shenanigans and hijinks.
Ooooh those are good ones
Good forenoon to you!
Also, I'm totally down with referring to the days of the Week by their etymological roots. Happy Day of Thor to you!
Ooooh I'm 100% behind using the etymological roots. Good call!
May tomorrow you have an excellent Day of Venus.
Why thank you 😊
Smoke weed every day
I love you. :'(
No kings. United we stand. ✊
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
For me, the small politeness words are not "thank you", "sorry", or "good morning". They're "maybe", "I think", "perhaps", "I don't know". I respect honest doubt way, way more than I respect dishonest = rushed certainty, and I wish I saw more of that.
Old english stuff like thy or thou. Nothing practical, just for the lol.
Perchance.
"I disagre, but you know what? That's fine, let's drop the subject and have a drink or whatever!"
"NO! I will destroy you, and wipe your seed from this earth unless you agree that Batman Begins had some pacing issues at the end of act 1!
"proselytize"
Only came across the word recently.
Catalyst
'moist'
My son has you covered. He calls me a "moisty boi" something like 100 times a day. I'm still not sure why other than it being some kind of dis.
"Bosom". Religious nuts shouldn't have a monopoly on the word. Also, it makes me chuckle every time.
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
What WAS that song???
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Does just broader vocabulary count? Maybe it's just a rule that everyone sits down with a dictionary every couple of weeks for 30 minutes just opening it to a random page.
Also, more latin phrases. That's cool shit.
I care about you but not just said to me but to between other people.
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