8 phrases people with below-average intelligence use in everyday conversation

Geediting.com ^ | 06/13/2025 | Olivia Reid

[ChicagoConservative27]

1) Overuse of intensifiers

2) Repeating the same stories

3) Binge-watching reality TV

4) Using clichés as a crutch

5) Resorting to insults in disagreements

6) Boasting about intelligence

7) Struggling with abstract concepts

8) Generalizing complex issues

[Fungi]

Using “like” every third word. Hannity is good at that, why I no longer listen.

[ABStrauss]

At the end of the day. You now?

[Tell It Right]

9) 10 years to save the planet

[metmom]

How about saying *I could care less* when they mean they could NOT care less?

Saying that *I could care less* means that you are capable of caring less than you currently do.

Saying that you could not care less, means your sympathy meter is pegged on ZERO and it would not be possible to care less than you already don’t care.

[Tell It Right]

10) I learned on a podcast

[metmom]

YES!!!

[Tell It Right]

11) While earning my PhD

[ChicagoConservative27]

But like OMG

[tumblindice]

I been stirring the pot over on the Fox special ed threads, heh.

[Bigg Red]

People like this writer who use plural personal pronouns when a singular pronoun is appropriate. So woke.

[Libloather]

Learned all my phrases from Bugs. They work every time.

[Navy Patriot]

You are language correct, however, idiom incorrect.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Using the phrase “begs the question” to mean “brings up the question”.

[BobL]

“5) Resorting to insults in disagreements”

Plenty of Leftists doing that here...but I do report them.

[Macoozie]

“1) Overuse of intensifiers
2) Repeating the same stories

3) Binge-watching reality TV

4) Using clichés as a crutch

5) Resorting to insults in disagreements

6) Boasting about intelligence

7) Struggling with abstract concepts

8) Generalizing complex issues”

You mean like what the original author of the piece does?
Or what I just did?

[ifinnegan]

Not so sure about number 8.

Thinking number 8 is a sign or this may be a sign of number 6;

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It is what it is.

[Ndorfin]

“No kings”
“Transrights”
“Best run campaign ever how did we lose?”
“Pregnant man”
“Threat to our democracy “

[HandyDandy]

“It is what it is.”

I can’t begin to tell you how much I hate that one!