Kevin Z uses it quite a lot on 5 @ 5. Certain guys use it more than others. Some guys use it as a tool, when they're thinking of what next to say. Les is the biggest butcher of it. He uses it maybe 20x+ an hour. Joe Maddon talked to the media, per se. The game went into overtime, per se. It was a good vacation, per se. I put this thread in the shoutouts section, per se.

I use "per se" way too much, both in writing and in speech. It is lazy, and it is usually just buying time while you try to formulate a point. I am not even entirely sure what it means. For these reasons, I support this DBOTW.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Kevin Dziepak is my favorite SCORE guy currently. He should have a show.

One of the grammatical pet peeves I have is with Parkins always trying to avoid ending a sentence with a proposition. For example, instead of saying "the replay reviews are a pain to deal with," he would say something like, "the replay reviews are pain with which to deal." Or, "the base you're throwing to" becomes "the base to which you're throwing." It may be proper, but it usually sounds forced. I don't recall even Bernstein being so consciously formal.

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Probably from rough streets of his debate history.

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"Now comes good sailing. Moose. Indian."

He learned it from Mac.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Most sentence-ending prepositions are actually phrasal verbs that are synonyms of other verbs (deal with = tolerate) and make less sense broken up and with-whiched than they would if you left them alone. Now and then it's better writing to keep the "pre" in preposition, but usually it's clumsy and pedantic.

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Les, Parkins, Speigel discuss word use at 0.40.

https://99tune.us/watch?v=9SFQf_mc68M

I agree. And these rules are designed for writing, not colloquial conversation. Beyond that, my philosophy in writing is that as long as one is aware of the rules he may make a stylistic choice to break them.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Dan did this too.

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No doubt

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Hasn't Parkins been called "the new voice of the score". Isn't it ironic he speaks oddly?

Which hypercorrection is a bigger pet peeve: saying things like "I don't know which coat on which to put" or adverbs modifying states of being? I have nerve damage in my hands: I feel badly.

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How bout a dangling participle? Wear an overcoat?

B & R talked to Larry about Bernstein's Parkins impression. Mentioned was how Parkins pronounces important "impordant". Leila did a funny Chicago white guy dialect impression.

I notice Les is trying not to use "per se" as a crutch. Instead now he's using "situation", and "basically" .

I have noticed more and more people pronouncing "important" as "impordant."

Leila's vocal fry is often pretty rough.

Hearing someone say "impordant" is expecially annoying.

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my boss always says 'with that being said...' as a crutch

former boss' go to phrase was "jerking my chain" in a very whiny/nasally voice

Someone once pointed out to me that I used the word "cumbersome" a lot and asked if I was a big fan of Seven Mary Three or something. That stopped that, I never use it anymore.

Had a boss who used silly word "irregardless" constantly. He wanted everything told to him succinctly, "Give it to me in a nutshell".

This reminds me of a Kids in The Hall skit where people complained their coworker used the word "ascertain" too much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_ ... el=MattJ.H.