This
has been annoying me for quite some time now, but this morning, hearing “Yeah,
I mean” used again and again, I felt it was time to bring out the curmudgeon in me
and get out a brief blog on the phrase.
I
have heard too many interviewees, mostly sports personalities, begin their
answer to an interviewer’s question by saying “Yeah, I mean.” The interviewer
may not even have asked them a yes or no question, but those are the first words of the reply.
Geeeeze
Loueeeze, why don’t you say what you meant in the first place? Is this a stalling tactic so that you can come
up with a reasonable answer? Do you even
know what you mean?
“Champ, how as it out there today?”
“Yeah, I mean, it was brutal"
Where
did this come from? When will it end?
Yeah, I mean.
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