Makes sense

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.