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To: kcvl

You used the Urban dictionary? And you have an argument about words and meanings? Really kcvl? Really?


59 posted on 02/17/2014 2:49:46 AM PST by Principled
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To: Principled

Its origin is listed as Chicago

“I’m just sayin’ . . .” will bite the dust soon as more and more Americans realize that using it classifies them as inarticulate and (I’m just sayin’) they will switch to a new cliché.

Jon Stewart, Daily Show segment “CNN’s Just Sayin’”, 8/18/2009, noting that “CNN delivers the news like a 12-year-old girl in a new segment called, “Just Sayin’.”

Mary Jane McKinney is the creator and owner of Grammardog.com LLC, publisher of grammar, style, and proofreading exercises that use sentences from literature. She is a former high school English teacher and dedicated grammarian whose column Plain English appears in several Texas newspapers.


61 posted on 02/17/2014 7:53:57 AM PST by kcvl
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