I hear ya....Anytime someone tries to hide their true intentions with the masquerade of word play, it gets on my nerves. A couple of examples of what I'm talking about:
- “I’m sorry you feel that way” - either apologize or don’t, but don’t be a weasle and try to shift blame with your nifty word tricks.
- “But this is how we’ve always done it….” - not a legitimate reason to continue any course of action.
- “They said….” - who said? Unless you’re willing to identify the antecedent, everything that follows a pronoun is meaningless.