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Have you noticed that people have started using the words "actual" or "actually" more than they need to? I've started doing it myself and it bothers me. I just find it a stupid turn of phrase although it has become so integrated that I barely notice anymore.

Maybe I can actually get used to it.

Pisshead wrote:Have you noticed that people have started using the words "actual" or "actually" more than they need to? I've started doing it myself and it bothers me. I just find it a stupid turn of phrase although it has become so integrated that I barely notice anymore.

Maybe I can actually get used to it.

I'm guilty.
But I had bigger problems with would, should and could.

Actually, you err in your appreciation, good sir.

Dunkelheit wrote:Actually, you err in your appreciation, good sir.

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

one was merely contributing, in an obviously lame manner, to the subject in question

Well you are just increasing your postcount.

yes, but that, good fellow, was a secret

In what context do people use the word 'actual' a lot? I don't think I've noticed it at all.

I have a slightly different problem. I tend to repeat words in two sentences in a row. When I'm rephrasing one thought, it's that one word that fits perfectly into both sentences. I always read what I write so usually I find that repetition so annoying I rephrase both sentences.

Actually ... I did it again. Rephrasing/rephrase ... motherfucker

I noticed another thing of my posts. I tend to start every sentence with word I. I have same problem with swedish.

or that you have a jävla huge ego?

Dunkelheit wrote:or that you have a jävla huge ego?

Is jävla for damn or pretty?

who knows my knowledge of the idiom only goes so far

fullgore wrote:In what context do people use the word 'actual' a lot? I don't think I've noticed it at all.

Example:
"You are an actual bastard, I actually cannot stand you"

Edit: Not meant in any offending way

I understand where you are coming from with this Sir Pisshead.

I have a friend who at one point decided that he was saying 'you know' (more 'yu know' in the Scots dialect-ish) too often and that we were to slap him every time he did.

You know, if you are trying to, you know, describe something that is like, you know, totally and in actual fact a very vague, you know, thing and you are getting, you know, lost in your, you know....words.

Actually, does that make sense?

Actually, I think words are rubbish. From now on let us communicate using pictures: