Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Hmmm – the most useless word in the English dictionary
I really want to find and beat up the guy that added the word [/sound] hmmm to the English dictionary. It adds nothing to a conversation at the same time signifying nothing. It could mean the person is just trying to grasp what you say, but more often than not just means the other person has nothing to contribute to the current discussion and wants you to either change the topic [without the other person contribution to the change, lazy as he/she is] or end the conversation. Repeated usages have caused more conversation to be ruined than any other word in the English dictionary. I just hate that word.
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ye me too.. hate it from the bottom of my heart... I have been telling Anoop I want to write a book on 'Hmmm' someday.. it irritates me to the core.. something like mosquito singing around my ears. Its a crapped version of "I don't agree", "Whatever!"," I don't care" et al... it all depends on you which one you choose.. but one thing is for sure..Hmmm is one hell of a fictitious bastard I would love to kill someday.
Hmmm...
You've got to be kidding me. That is the most useful word of all!
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