Legally Distinct From A Satement
A brief note on conversational safety equipment I’ve started noticing a phrase people deploy right before saying something they don’t want examined too closely. A small linguistic seatbelt, fastened immediately before driving directly into oncoming traffic. I speak, of course, of the once humble “ in my opinion. ” People no longer say this then offer their thought. They say it like performing a quick-save in Skyrim before looting a shop. It's become the conversational version of “in Minecraft,” except instead of protecting from the fuzz it protects from follow-up questions. This is a real bummer too, because “in my opinion” used to perfectly perform it’s previous purpose.