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These inappropriate expressions that we use every day

2022-11-29T06:15:54.640Z


True linguistic crutches, certain formulas punctuate our sentences and remove all legitimacy from our remarks. Which ones should be avoided?


They are ready-made, their meaning seems self-evident, and are frequently followed by the phrase,

"You see what I mean."

If it goes without saying that punctuating your sentence with such a phrase is not a good sign, expressions whose meaning is altered abound in everyday language.

True tics of language supposed to allow to show its loyalty, its relevance, or its attention towards the others, the latter ridicule the one who persists in using them.

As much as the tautological "incessantly shortly", or the incoherent "we're going on", what are the formulas to banish from our conversations?

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I make it short for you

In the course of a lively conversation on the terrace, or during a professional lunch bringing together many guests, you have most likely heard this formula.

Anyone who wishes to present his argument patiently waits for the opportune moment to speak.

He has very little time in front of him and cannot afford to disappoint his audience.

You have to be sharp, fast.

So he introduces his remarks by:

"I'll make it short for you."

Disappointing his audience from the outset, since most people using this expression rarely keep a promise, it turns out that he also makes a grammatical error.

What does the pronoun "the" mean?

The story that this interlocutor is about to tell?

Anything else that I missed?

So many questions for a simple answer: this formula is to be banned.

Good luck!

/ Good luck!

Your hands are sweaty.

The baccalaureate examiner is about to tell you the subject of the oral French test, when the previous candidate comes out of the room and wishes you:

"good luck!"

The unfortunate is then taken back.

"Nothing about this exam is luck, it's hard work!"

, replies the professor.

Of course, now is not the time to question his word.

Although this reflection is not exact since, having revised only five works out of twelve, the luck factor will be there for much in the notation.

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There are some cases, however, where the use of the term “good luck” is absurd.

And this, especially when it is used in the sense of "good courage".

Example: You meet a neighbor in the elevator and the latter tells you that he is going out to buy a Christmas tree.

By wishing him "good luck", or worse, "good luck" (because, if he has some money, he most certainly won't have any trouble getting one), you let it be seen that he it is a thankless task, a bad time to pass.

However, nothing allows you to know if this is the case.

In order to avoid any misunderstanding, therefore, confine yourself to a simple:

“Have a good day!”

In parentheses

"Yesterday my brother went to

the Versailles History Book Fair

, which, incidentally, is an event he loves, and he met some great authors there."

You're probably not the only one that this phrase annoys.

All the more so when it is accompanied by a sign of the fingers supposed to designate quotation marks.

And yet, it abounds in everyday language.

With the aim of marking the step aside made in the statement made, isolating a proposition is useless in the oral.

It is not appropriate to underline, by stating its name, a sign invented to transcribe this process.

Better to say, quite simply:

"Yesterday, my brother went to the Versailles history book fair, an event he loves, and he met some great authors there."

The ears listening to your story will thank you.

I'm yours

"I allow myself to finish what I have to do and I'm yours"

, exclaims the young recruit of a company.

A romantic formula if ever there was one, the expression punctuates many of our exchanges today.

And this, not in the context of an incandescent epistolary correspondence but well in the context of a banal conversation between colleagues, friends, or even by addressing his hierarchical superior (still it is necessary to have the audacity to address him ).

The expression is meant to be cordial.

But it is an exaggeration.

Also, let's prefer to say

"I'll be right back"

and leave the formula in its place, in the amorous lexicon.

“All is then found: I am yours and you are mine, we are united forever

,” wrote Goethe in 1832 in the play

Faust

.

Source: lefigaro

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