Contemplate that phrase for a while. Wrap your brain around it, I dare you.
Sort of inextricably intertwinedI often hear athletes use waffle words; after thoroughly destroying another team: "we sorta came out in the second half and established ourselves," for example. Why the "sorta"?
This, though...this is a semantic nightmare.
Sort of inextricably intertwinedThus the pernicious effect of "kinda/kind of" or "sorta/sort of" as space fillers as we search for the right words. Don't let this disease infect your speech. Better to use "um" and sound inept than use "sort of" and risk sounding like an idiot.
On the other hand, perhaps this is the way to achieve immortality: many of us will remember his words far longer than had he not used "sort of".
No comments:
Post a Comment