has the use of "frankly" ever been discussed here?
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Mar 8 21:02:24 UTC 2009
At 3/8/2009 02:02 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:
>Put me down on your list.
>
>Only thing worse is "quite frankly...", which means, "whatever follows is a
>complete falsehood"
Perhaps the identically-meant "quite honestly" is even worse.
Have a nice day!
Joel
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