Just sayin '

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Just sayin' gets on my Bristols something awful too. There is a blog devoted to deterring its usage.

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It's hard to identify from whence the phrase comes or the first time it was used. But its risibility is clear.

If you didn't mean what you said or if there was no import to it, don't say it. Why say it? Don't say it. But worse than that, you obviously did mean what you said so don't veil it with pretending you didn't. Last month was the R-Word Month, during which the public was meant to avoid saying "retard" as an insult. Let's make this the month of not saying Just Sayin'. It's dumb and retarded. Just sayin'

If you use this phrase yourself then no offense - just sayin'

Edited October 5, 2011 by Austin Devon

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Aw, you're just sayin' that, si man.

[Captain Oates 911]

Aw, you're just sayin' that, si man.

Really, it pops my skull

But there are worse sayings that I will stamp out as soon as I have eradicated this expression from the 300 mill population

just my 2 cents -- jeez that's another one !

Edited October 5, 2011 by Austin Devon

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... you obviously did mean what you said so don't veil it with pretending you didn't.

I've never interpreted "just sayin" as the speaker pretending they didn't mean it. I could be wrong of course. I tend to see the phrase as a way for a speaker to devalue his or her own statement... it's just something i'm saying, i do mean it but it's not important and i don't care enough about it to argue. Yes, one could argue why make a throwaway statement like that at all...

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I've never interpreted "just sayin" as the speaker pretending they didn't mean it. I could be wrong of course. I tend to see the phrase as a way for a speaker to devalue his or her own statement... it's just something i'm saying, i do mean it but it's not important and i don't care enough about it to argue. Yes, one could argue why make a throwaway statement like that at all...

You have good point there...

Yes the nuances are not always obvious to furriners but luckily the blog I was quoting was written by an American so it irks more than just those to whom it is relatively new

My wife is yanky and she hates 'take a listen' on the telly. I mean she REALLY hates it.

Her Ma was born in Arkansas and wifely grew up with a southern accent and a lot of southern sayings even though she was born and brought up in Wisconsin

When she got to school age, the school sent her for elocution lessons to get rid of the phrases and accent but some phrases pop out every now and then even though she sounds Canadian ...

Sounding Canadian is useful when you go to a Pakistani restaurant in the George Bush era - in fact its life preservingly useful

When the waiter came over, I used to say she was Canadian and was new to England.

Edited October 5, 2011 by Austin Devon

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well.. i tell you what.. ..

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well.. i tell you what.. ..

I don't like the English 'not'

AS in "Your hairdresser is really good - Not". Very common usage in the UK

My worst pet hate is " My bad" which has me chewing the carpet. Apparently Shakespeare used it but I never heard it until the last couple of years and now they use it in adverts on the telly !

What's wrong with "My mistake"

When I hear " My bad" I always think " My bad - what ?" It needs another word...it's incomplete