The manager who sits in the room not far from my cubicle showers his sentences with a liberal dose of "basically". As I listen to him, I play an odd game, trying to guess when the next "basically" will drop.
The engineer at the other end of the hall embellishes each sentence with a trailing "kind of". An otherwise well crafted sentence sags under the weight of that unwelcome intrusion.
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