My 3 year old wrote:
It’s a figure of speech.
What else you want to know?
so you don't know what "phatic" means?
My 3 year old wrote:
It’s a figure of speech.
What else you want to know?
so you don't know what "phatic" means?
FYI. People that say "to be honest with you" typically follow that phrase with a lie 74.6% of the time.
Everyone talks the same wrote:
NGL, at the end of the day it’s the weirdest phatic expression. Just saying.
How is just saying any different than saying I'm not going to lie? Should I believe one and not the other? Or, should I believe neither?
It does say more about me than people who use it. Although in the current society phrasing sentences with an excess of 'like', 'if I'm being honest', 'not going to lie' and many more sounding more trustworthy than people who openly refuse to use such wording is nothing more than I expected of this generation of our species.