I read a lot, although not as many books as I'd like to. Throughout the day I am reading articles and blogs posted all over the Internet by writers and bloggers from all walks of life. When my daughter is taking a nap I'll usually enjoy the peace and quiet and read for several hours on one monitor while working on another - getting up occasionally to clean the kitchen or start a load of laundry. Multi-tasking at it's finest.
This is the point where I call you people out, not by name, but you know who you are. I was guilty of it once, too, but never twice. I am going to start the initiative to do away with the term, "but I digress" from all future articles and blog posts on the World Wide Web. That's right, let's ban the use of the term! Everybody block it from working in your word processors and erase it from your brain so it doesn't come back. It is a phrase that is so overused and sometimes people don't even use it correctly in their writing. But I digress. (<-- See, like that! I wasn't really digressing at all!)
Don't get me wrong, I love reading the articles and blogs from everyone that uses the term, but when I get to it in a paragraph it makes my left eye twitch a little bit. I know the words, "but I digress," are a lot easier to write out than, "I'm sorry, I just got a little off track there for a second and I'll continue on with my original point here in the next sentence," but the term is so common now that it loses all meaning for me.
It's time for a change, people! Who's with me? What other overused phrases would you like to see eliminated from writing? Submit them in the comments section below!
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