Comment by _4lri
16 years ago
Is it possible to call someone on this in conversation without being rude? e.g. "What do you mean 'it turns out'?"
16 years ago
Is it possible to call someone on this in conversation without being rude? e.g. "What do you mean 'it turns out'?"
"Cool, where did you learn that?"
But that's too much like conversationally asking a question about a detail, instead of leaping on a harmless locution with an intent to prove superiority.
What good is that?
"Care to cite some specific examples?"
or, brasher
"Citation needed."
> "Citation needed."
And you have to hold your hands up to indicate [square braces].
Or, if you're going for wiki-formatting, you somehow need to crook your hands & fingers into weird {{double-curly braces}}. Seems more painful than air-quotes...
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Make sure never to say anything like, "I was curious about X - what were some specific example?", though.
That might be too socially functional.
I'd be more concerned with people doing it in essays.