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by renewiltord 1786 days ago
Surely this discussion will ultimately merely degenerate into prescriptivists vs descriptivists?

For my part, I use the term sparingly since I find I can easily use it as a catch-all thought-terminating cliche. That doesn’t mean it is useless. Just that it’s bad for me to use it.

People around me know to not let me get away with saying that.