ok, now I really need to disagree with you. First of all, it wasn't an opinion column, it was part of Column 8, which I didn't menton before because not all my livejournal readers are Australian, and I didn't want to go into the details of explaining how Column 8 works. Secondly, ad hominem attacks have no bearing at all on an argument. Just because the writer is an idiot doesn't necessarily mean that they never say anything worth thinking about, even if you only think about it in terms of why they're wrong and therefore an idiot. Thirdly.. maybe it is time someone took a look into words like "well".. actually I'm betting someone already has. But they're certainly not completely meaningless in the context of sociolinguistics. Ingroup markers and all that like you say. So yeh, this entry was someone having a bitch in Column 8 about the preponderance of stupid grammatically incorrect catchphrases, and I thought it was interesting and worth expanding on since it's something I've thought about myself every now and then.
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Date: 2007-06-03 01:57 am (UTC)Thirdly.. maybe it is time someone took a look into words like "well".. actually I'm betting someone already has. But they're certainly not completely meaningless in the context of sociolinguistics. Ingroup markers and all that like you say.
So yeh, this entry was someone having a bitch in Column 8 about the preponderance of stupid grammatically incorrect catchphrases, and I thought it was interesting and worth expanding on since it's something I've thought about myself every now and then.