Having sat through a 45-minute presentation yesterday, let me
toss something out to the universe:
Can we all agree to banish this interjection from all discourse:
“Does that make sense?”
Inevitably the utterer is not actually asking for your
opinion on the matter, and in fact would be shattered if you were to suggest
that no, indeed it does not make
sense, since there’s never even a pause before s/he runs on to the next point.
It’s nothing more than a drawn-out filler phrase, an attenuated “you know”.
Which makes it utterly meaningless, a waste of breath and
just up-my-nose annoying. So let’s enucleate it from the language. We’ll all be
the better for it.
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