“It takes more intelligence to build a joke, tell a funny anecdote or narrate a gripping story than it takes to nitpick.” Of course I’ve been guilty of it myself, but Well, Actually is one of my biggest conversational pet peeves, especially online.
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4 Comments
Bill Clark
That definitely sounds as bad as a poorly timed “Imma let you finish, but…”
syzygy
Urgh…that article hit uncomfortably close to home. And I’m not even a software developer! Time to add “well, actually” to my internal filter, along with stuff like “you know” and “basically”.
Meggin
‘Well, actually’ can also put a real dampener on innovation. The best ideas are born out of pushing the boundaries on what we know. ‘Well, actually’ can make it difficult to change, to see something in a different way, to be creative, to try something new.
Robert Bigelow
Yay! \o/ for making the list of the top ten female bloggers of the year. More so than anyone else on the list you actually *do* things that bring people and technology together. You *make* things that actually help people make their lives better. I do the large and bulk of my computing, development and Inter-networking via a Unix shell (ba$h) and *love* using todo.txt to help me keep track of appointments, information-literacy meetings and all manner of activities of a 21st century g33k. ^..^~