plus:
‘Needless to say’
‘partnering’ and the general tendency toward ‘verbing’ everything!
And a few misused words and phrases that should be purged from the collective vocabulary:
1. ‘I was like’ for ‘I said’ (the second is shorter anyway!)
2. ‘She went’ for ‘she said’ (where, exactly, has she gone?)
3. The companion, “And so I go . . .’ for ‘I said’
3. ‘He was literally shouting at me’ (unless the context might allow ‘shouting’ to have some figurative meaning, ‘literally’ here is literally not needed – I mean, it’s not needed!)
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