stuartr
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let me just chime in and say that there are few words I hate more than zeitgeist. I guess it could be my innate hatred for Germans and their ilk (Austrians and Swiss). Just kidding. Ilk is a great word...much better than Elk, which is in turn far superior to caribou. I have to agree that rhubarb is wonderful, if only as a word and not as a jam. My mom makes rhubarb jam, and the smell is sickly sweet. Corn-hole is not as nice as cornpone, and bung is superior to bunghole (both Shakepearian terms...I **** you not: "You filthy bung, away!" That is a direct quote. But I like Hamlet better when he says: "To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?" But enough about bung's and their holes.)
"Ya know" is probably worse when used as a filler like "uh, ummm" and so forth. There is a guy I know who uses it so much that it is almost theatrical. During a four minute speech, I counted that he said "ya know" over 27 times. I just stopped counting.
"Ya know" is probably worse when used as a filler like "uh, ummm" and so forth. There is a guy I know who uses it so much that it is almost theatrical. During a four minute speech, I counted that he said "ya know" over 27 times. I just stopped counting.