Posted on 02/16/2014 6:29:18 AM PST by jimbo123
Its origin is listed as Chicago
“I’m just sayin’ . . .” will bite the dust soon as more and more Americans realize that using it classifies them as inarticulate and (I’m just sayin’) they will switch to a new cliché.
Jon Stewart, Daily Show segment “CNN’s Just Sayin’”, 8/18/2009, noting that “CNN delivers the news like a 12-year-old girl in a new segment called, “Just Sayin’.”
Mary Jane McKinney is the creator and owner of Grammardog.com LLC, publisher of grammar, style, and proofreading exercises that use sentences from literature. She is a former high school English teacher and dedicated grammarian whose column Plain English appears in several Texas newspapers.
Good stuff thanks.
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