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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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"I was like, oh my god!"
This is just laziness and/or lack of vocabulary.

What they mean is "I was shocked/surprised/astonished/some other synonym". As I said yesterday, learn more words and you'll end up using less to say the same thing.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:25, 3 replies)
"I was like" is, technically speaking
A legally-permissable reason to kill the utterer.

CF "I was just like ... "
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:27, closed)
For instance...
...learn the word 'fewer' and you'll use 'less' less often.

Even I hate me for that one.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:10, closed)
bastard
hoisted etc.

I could argue that I meant less speech rather than fewer words, but then leaves a hanging clause.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:05, closed)

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