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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3595494" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I can thank my old boss for this one. If you told him something that included the phrase “to be honest,” “to tell the truth,” or something similar, his immediate reply was “have you not been telling me the truth up ‘til now?”, and now that’s what I think when I hear that phrase. Even worse, I find myself editing those phrases out of my own speech and writing. </p><p></p><p>The one that gets me is “I feel that X is happening” or “I feel like this is what we should do.” Don’t tell me what you <em>feel</em>, tell me what you <em>think</em>, or, better yet, what you <em>know</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3595494, member: 26737"] I can thank my old boss for this one. If you told him something that included the phrase “to be honest,” “to tell the truth,” or something similar, his immediate reply was “have you not been telling me the truth up ‘til now?”, and now that’s what I think when I hear that phrase. Even worse, I find myself editing those phrases out of my own speech and writing. The one that gets me is “I feel that X is happening” or “I feel like this is what we should do.” Don’t tell me what you [I]feel[/I], tell me what you [I]think[/I], or, better yet, what you [I]know[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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