Smart sounds
Smart sounds
An article in today's Advertiser lists 15 words suggested by experts that we should drop from our vocabulary and then supposedly sound smarter.
The words are:
I could easily drop half of these words; but I do like the words Stuff, Things, Maybe and Absolutely.
Maybe people would sound a bit smarter, not by dropping some words, but by learning to string words together a bit better. Stuff would sound a lot better; absolutely.
Here's a link to the article
An article in today's Advertiser lists 15 words suggested by experts that we should drop from our vocabulary and then supposedly sound smarter.
The words are:
- That
- Went
- Honestly
- Really
- Very
- Amazing
- Absolutely
- Always
- Never
- Literally
- Just
- Maybe
- Stuff
- Things
- Irregardless
I could easily drop half of these words; but I do like the words Stuff, Things, Maybe and Absolutely.
Maybe people would sound a bit smarter, not by dropping some words, but by learning to string words together a bit better. Stuff would sound a lot better; absolutely.
Here's a link to the article
Vocabulary is progressively going down the toilet.
ReplyDeleteA sign of the times.