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These Bugbears Are 'Grislies'

by Rob Kyff

Which linguistic potholes shake your chassis? Are you impacted by the use of "impact" to mean "affect"? Are you all, like, rattled when, like, teenagers use "like" as a verbal filler? Do you think the overuse of "best practices" isn't the best practice?

You're not alone. (And it's a good thing you're not a loan because, these days, many of them aren't being paid.)

Readers from Down Under to Up Over have sent me their pet peeves. Surely, yo ...

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Posted by: Martha
Comment: #1
Thu Jul 2, 2009 3:00 AM

One of our local newscasters says ''we're talking". ''We're talking 6 inches of rain! '' ''We're not talking a LOT of snow, but a light sprinkling.'' ''we're talking hot weather, folks, really hot."

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