“lambasts” or “pillories” instead of “slams” in news headlines

Call it cheesy, but people need to tell each other “I love you” more often.

1. “Thank you”
2. “My bad”
3. “I am not familiar with the subject so I have no opinion on it”

For me, the small politeness words are not “thank you”, “sorry”, or “good morning”. They’re “maybe”, “I think”, “perhaps”, “I don’t know”. I respect honest doubt way, way more than I respect dishonest = rushed certainty, and I wish I saw more of that.

“I disagre, but you know what? That’s fine, let’s drop the subject and have a drink or whatever!”

Good forenoon to you!

Also, I’m totally down with referring to the days of the Week by their etymological roots. Happy Day of Thor to you!

Verisimilitude. It’s just nice.

I petition to bring back regular use of Kerfuffle.

Does just broader vocabulary count? Maybe it’s just a rule that everyone sits down with a dictionary every couple of weeks for 30 minutes just opening it to a random page.

Also, more latin phrases. That’s cool shit.

I care about you but not just said to me but to between other people.

Gadzooks. It’s just such a fun phrase.

Old english stuff like thy or thou. Nothing practical, just for the lol.

“I don’t know.”

If we were honest, it’s the thing we should all be saying and hearing all day long. But it’s not. Quite the opposite, it’s among the rarest. Instead, people are shooting their certainties at one another, relentlessly.

Not knowing something or not having an opinion on a question is not an issue. It’s to be expected, even if we were all geniuses (I’m certainly not one). Not doing the work to inform oneself could potentially be an issue but should not be as long we don’t pretend otherwise. It’s when one pretends to know, based on what one has heard someone else say, or because one wants to push a specific narrative that suits them, that shit starts hitting the fan. That’s when living together turn into the stinking shit hole it has turned into in which lies are fine (when they’re not adored) and facts have become suspicious if not dangerous.

Obviously, I don’t know what I’m talking about.

No kings. United we stand.

I’ve always been partial to there- and where-compounds (thereupon, therefrom, wherein, etc.).