So there’s this manner of speaking, right? And it’s getting really annoying — more annoying than uptalk, I think. It seems to be very common among political pundits and tech podcasters, right? And it’s becoming more  pervasive all the time. Chris Hayes on MSNBC is a particularly frequent user of this verbal tic, and it might be even more irritating than his relentless fast-talking, right? Because once you’re aware of it, it seems to be everywhere and it’s profoundly annoying, and it takes the listener’s focus away from the point being made and toward a level of annoyance that just gets greater and greater all the time.

So, yes: right. We get it. Just stop asking us, drop the word from your vocabulary and move on.

Am I wrong, Dude?

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at 3:23 pm and is filed under Rants 'n' Such, This 'n' That.