03-20-2014, 10:50 PM
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#2535
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Not cheering for losses
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Originally Posted by squiggs96
Actually, personally or honestly also go in this bucket.
I honestly think this is best. Why did you say honestly? Are you lying every other time and that's why you have to say this time you're being honest?
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...-word-internet
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Especially on the Internet, a platform where everyone is trying to stake an intellectual claim in comments sections or on Twitter, actually often expresses a very specific attitude: condescension.
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Smith, a professor of linguistics at UCLB, said she and her colleague presumed actually would be used to disprove facts, but instead the speakers most often used the word to discount attitudes or opinions.
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