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Re:Good writing is a business advantage by WalterBright on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:21PM (#23025761)
When people start a sentence with "I'll be honest with you" I'll often rudely interrupt saying "you mean you weren't honest before?"

Yes, I know it is a meaningless filler phrase. I got tired of watching "American Chopper" partly because the son started every sentence with that phrase.

A colleague basically of mine basically interjected "basically" between basically every couple basically of words, basically. So I basically started basically writing basically a lot of "basically" interjections basically in my basically emails basically to basically him. Fortunately, he basically had basically a great basically sense of basically humor. Like, totally.

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Re:Good writing is a business advantage by austincheney on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:39PM (#23025891)
My favorite phrase to use in these situations is to use this as a compliment: It could be worse. It seems contrary to agree with as though the topic is horrible, but disagreement means the topic is the worst. It forces a moment of self reflection and then people suddenly become aware of the words spoken.
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