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by sjdrc 20 days ago
The use of the word genuinely is always a dead giveaway
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I recently came across https://tropes.fyi/directory which has a pretty solid set of common patterns, and I like it a lot. The pattern that always really bothers me is the one named "short punchy fragments", for example from the site “He published this. Openly. In a book. As a priest.”

It kills me every time. I automatically lose any interest in the substance and often just throw away the whole conversation!

You're absolutely wrong.
That's kind of sad to me, I've used that word a lot, it was my go-to and best technique for trying to convey sincerity in comment sections
But someone can genuinely like using the word!
It genuinely is.
And “honestly” in the way it is used in this piece