>>>>>>>Agreed about picking our battles. I feel like I am biting my lip on an almost daily basis about little things like dirty dishes left all over the place
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>>>>>>Yeah, I've noticed that there's absolutely nothing that anyone does every day.
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>>>>>How about breathing?
>>>>>How about Blinking?
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>>>>They do that on a daily basis. But never every day.
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>>>I think I breath, blink and swollow every day on a daily basis.
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>>>hmmm... This must be one of those double (maybe even triple) disambiguations of yours. :)
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>>Actually, I think the term "daily basis" is a very loose term. Maybe someone should write a Wikipedia article to establish a definition for it. Then I'd maybe understand any deeper meaning it may have.
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>>As it is... I really don't see why was it introduced at all. It, like, looks like a pointless, like, fad.
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>ANY expression with the stem "basis" or "situation" in it is usually rubbish.
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>"We're in a war situation" = "We're at war"
>" - " - No-win situation" = "We can't win"
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>The word I CANNOT STAND is "basically", to such an extent that I've banned my kids from saying it. I can't think of one sentence with it in that needs it.
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>If someone says "A car is basically a box on 4 wheels" then that's not too bad, but I'm sick of hearing people describe an anecdote, or situation, that takes about 10 minutes, and has every other sentence begin with "Basically". Obviously they've gone WAY past the basics when that much explanation is necessary.


American sports announcers abuse the heck out of the word "situation." For instance, "That brings up a third down situation." Do you mean, "It's third down?"?!?!?!