>>The word that bugs me is "truism". People say "that is a truism" when they could just say "that is true"
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>But they don't mean quite the same thing. Again from wikipedia (because it was the first hit):
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>"A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device.
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>Often the word is used to disguise the fact that a proposition is really just a half-truth or an opinion, especially in rhetoric. "
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>Tamar
OIC. Still don't like it though.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.