The Power of Dialogue

[moneypenny]

I recently noticed the simultaneous power and hilarity of announcing one's intentions to open a line of dialogue. It's so delightfully affected

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[tritium]

I do.

Another fun one is "go ahead and..." the remarkable thing about this phrase is, you can always remove it, and wind up with semantically exactly what you started out with.

Fr ex:
"Let's go ahead and begin."
"Let's begin."

See what I mean? I go ahead and like to go ahead and insert this phrase before every verb I go ahead and use.

[perich]

See also: "basically" and "I just wanted to ask you if ..."

[tritium]

"I just wanted to ask you if you could basically go ahead and begin." Pretty good.

Have you read the Twain thing where he suggests that you replace every occurence of "very" with "damn," so that your editor will remove it, and everything will be as it should?

[funwithiago]

But if you open a line of dialogue, is it not possible that it will cease to be a line of dialogue? Perhaps if you open this line of dialogue, its form will shift, and you will be faced with an amorphous globule of dialogue. And, in that case, you would have to run FAR AWAY.

It seems easier to me to the line of dialogue continue on its merry way.

Dialogue

[rhc]

All non-literary uses of "dialogue" are funny

[bruisemobile]

I tend to use and hear it mostly as a verb. Such as "I think that we should dialogue..." or "They really need to dialogue."

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one with liberal arts-damaged speech patterns. You can take the girl out of Sarah Lawrence...