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The ONE Word That Makes You Sound Stupid, Guaranteed

Zoë Triska | Posted 05.07.2012

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Zoë Triska

I have something to admit: I am guilty of a horrible crime.

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Single Ape Advice: Light-Switching

Steven Nereo | Posted 04.03.2012

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Steven Nereo

For the past five years, Steven has been shoveling advice at singleape.com. The following is a weekly selection for the readers of The Huffington Post...

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Single Ape Advice: All This Fuss for a Microbus

Steven Nereo | Posted 03.27.2012

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Steven Nereo

This is why people write to me, because they've exhausted their friends' patience with the minutiae of their situations. The good news is I can ask the questions most friends wouldn't dare ask.

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Single Ape Advice: Break-Up Mash-Up

Steven Nereo | Posted 03.21.2012

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Steven Nereo

Having her move out while I was at work seemed like an awesome idea at the time, but rolling home late at night to an empty house was a shock.

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Moving to, Like, America

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

I noticed an exponential use of the preposition "like" that by now largely supplants the use of a comma that I started to fear that, oh my God, I myself might eventually, like, catch this bug.

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Like, Three Bridesmaids

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Corso

I don't know about you, but I've had enough of "like." So where does this linguistic fixation with "like" come from?

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The Most Annoying Phrases on Earth

Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leslie Goldman

You think it's annoying when someone starts a sentence with the word "ironically," when it most certainly is not? Or when McCain uttered "My friends" enough times to warrant a drinking game?

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