>>>>>... and becomes truthiness.
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>>>>>Is that a Bushism fro "the truth"?
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>>>>Started as one, but I'm not sure what exactly was it supposed to mean. Can't be the truth as such, they have no use for it.
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>>>"...exactly it was supposed to mean" <- I've covered this before.
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>>>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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>>>(similar to the "interest rates have risen by one half of a percentage point" rather than just "...by half a percent")
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>>Well, some people, many, in fact, just simply find it difficult, if not hard, to merely say in very few words and phrases what they intend or mean when many will work, if not just as well, then at least not significantly worse than the few in which the statement might have been made if they had wanted to be somewhat more concise, not to mention terse than they became when the statement was finally uttered, typed, written, or mimed.
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>lol
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>"...find it difficult, if not hard..." Isn't the use of that tautologically and verbosely utilising superfluous verbage more than you need?

No.

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>One of teh female newsreaders on BBC Radio 4 used to really hack me off when quoting, say, stock exchange prices would say " ... today closed at twenty-five pounds and fourteen pence". In 1971, when the new decimal currency came out, all our coppers had "New Pence" stamped in them. Good job that had been dropped or she would doubtlessly have thrown "new" in too!