Actually, it's not a bad word and doesn't deserve to be insulted.
It reinforces, it demarcates, it helps to concentrate, to herald the next point, not to get tangled up in the spoken contribution.
But it still has absolute nerve potential.
Because it's so popular it's banging out in your ears.
We're talking about the word "exactly".
The new "uh".
Giving consent to another is what the word is for.
That has changed.
Now the "exactly" - in the spoken language - serves as self-affirmation, so to speak, to agree and to agree with oneself.
Ursula Kals
Editor in business, responsible for "Youth Writes".
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So, and before you read on and wonder why a column is dedicated to this harmless five-letter adjective, put it to the test and count at home and on the go, at authorities and in conferences who, when and how often "exactly " says.
Any bet that two fingers are not even enough for a quarter of an hour and that the tally will fill up reliably.
And try to refrain from using all filler words and to do without them as completely as possible.
Extend this self-experiment and set it up in the meeting room: ten cents for whoever says "exactly", twenty cents for whoever says "exactly".
Draw the hate of the ideologues and make more bets on whether men or women are more inclined to use that reinforcing "exactly, but clearly!" in an inflationary manner.
There seems to be a difference there.
And always cash in, because your colleague's coffee till won't ring any sweeter.
This is not an instruction from the language police, but a suggestion not to beat around the bush in the new year.
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