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你最討厭聽到的口頭禪是什麼?

美國的調查最近投票結果出爐，"whatever"竟然是大家最討厭聽到的片語，其實想想，我也討厭別人說隨便，都可以，你是不是也常常這樣說呢?

討厭的片語還有

"whatever" 佔39%

"like" 佔18%，特別是18~29歲的年輕族群特別討厭這個用法

"you know what I mean" 佔15%

"Whatever" voted most irritating word in poll

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BD5N720101214

NEW YORK | Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:19pm EST

Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it's actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

For the second consecutive year "whatever' topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language.

Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by "like" with 28 percent and the phrase "you know what I mean' at 15 percent.

"Perhaps these words are introduced through popular culture, for example movies ... so they catch on," said Mary Azzoli, of Marist. "It has a lot to do with how accepted and how popular they become in every day speech."

Azzoli said words like "whatever" can be quite dismissive depending on how they are used.

"It's the way they are delivered and inherent in that delivery is a meaning.

The phrase "to tell you the truth" and "actually" were also unnerving to many people. But for younger Americans, aged 18 to 29, "like" was the word that annoyed them most.

(Reporting by Bernard Orr; Editing by Patricia Reaney) 新聞來源