January 18, 2011
What is with "sort of"? It is not only slangy it is vague, and it is used a lot by people appearing on TV. I notice its usage most when I watch CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and ESPN. I think commentators use the phrase when they are afraid to comment to a concrete description of something. It is not only political in usage, I recently saw Dr. Gupta on CNN explaining the pump in Dick Chaney's heart and he must have said "sort of" fifteen times in five minutes.
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Do you ever get the feeling that something is going on here that we don't know about?
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