If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT! 
Coaches and players: Stop using the word OBVIOUSLY.
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Evidently, you need to get a life.If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
Geez man try the decaf. LOL.
Here's another way to look at it. The interviewee mentions a certain football detail but they aren't sure if the interviewer has in depth knowledge of said detail. The interviewee throws in the word "obviously" as a way to avoid insulting the intelligence of the interviewer. Think of it as a way of saying, "You may already know this but for the people who don't...." Language can have a certain nuance. Embrace it.
If everyone talked like you, everyone would be ignored - like you are for the most part.
The word is used incorrectly way too often. Otherwise, why would I bring it up? Listen to Franklin’s postgame press conference.Here's another way to look at it. The interviewee mentions a certain football detail but they aren't sure if the interviewer has in depth knowledge of said detail. The interviewee throws in the word "obviously" as a way to avoid insulting the intelligence of the interviewer. Think of it as a way of saying, "You may already know this but for the people who don't...." Language can have a certain nuance. Embrace it.
Should we discuss how the words ‘irony’ and ‘ironic’ are so often used incorrectly? Would that also suggest that I need ‘to get a life’?
I don’t obsess over these things. It’s just that serial misuse of words is so fvcking prevalent (and obvious to anyone able to hear the spoken word and is familiar with the English language).
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Obviously you do obsess. Why else would you vent here? Ironic, no? And it's really OK if you obsess. There are websites dedicated to discussions about the proper use of the English language. It sounds like one of those would be a great outlet.
Oh, one more thing. Get a life.
You, NittPicker, of all the posters here, should agree with me. Otherwise, lose your pun of a moniker.
Do you even know what a nit is and why they need to be picked? Am I obviously being condescending or am I just being condescending?
“Obviously, you are being condescending.”
“You are being condescending.”
Which is it?
And "appreciative".If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
I do. I'm also proud to say I'm not a Harbaugh-esque type of picker. Even if I was, I wouldn't admit it here.
Art just hates the vernacular. Dig up Walt Whitman and have him give franklins press conferences.
Art — “Slade dashed betwixt the opposition, scarcely encumbered by foe nor pitch.”
Franklin - “Obvioulsy, I liked Slade’s touchdown run.”
Art — “Slade dashed betwixt the opposition, scarcely encumbered by foe nor pitch.”
Franklin - “Obvioulsy, I liked Slade’s touchdown run.”
Obviously this thread is not football related. Thus i must obviously move on. That’s quite obvious to me.
LMAO — “ Yeah, uh, he’s a little banged up...played with a torn HAMSTRING....uhhh not happy about it...he needs to fix his HAMSTRING”.
Throw in some gum chewing and I think I nailed it.
Perhaps he models his pressers after mike shanahan.If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
How the fvck did I get in into this conversation? And how's that for fvcking vernacular?
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
OH
GET
OVER
YOURSELF
Oh arbiter of what's prim and proper. Did it ever occur to you that the person asking the question, oftentimes a reporter, needs to be told what's obvious based on the question. Like this one here...
http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/24559062/alabama-nick-saban-apologizes-reporter
I am stymied. I appreciate arts&letters OP and have my own pet peeves about people fuc#ing up the English language. On the other hand (OTOH for the modern crowd), this particular rant reveals some deep seated resentment that is amusing at best and, possibly, disturbing if not for a&l’s history as a good citizen!
Fuc# it, I am completely amused. BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!
Fuc# it, I am completely amused. BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
Consider context, a football coach and a football player. or as the late Bill Walsh put it, "the intellectual in my profession is the guy with the National Geographic subscription."
Bullshit. I’ve been listening to this shit usage for many, many years. OBVIOUSLY is unnecessary and misused. Only a dope would think otherwise. Listen to Franklin speak. That’s all the proof I need. Saturday in his opening statement of the postgame presser he said “Obviously, the first thing I want to mention is what a great program App St. is.” (not exactly but very close). If it’s OBVIOUS why does he have to say it’s OBVIOUS? And, by the way, it’s NOT OBVIOUS that that’s the first thing he’d want to mention. It’s a dumbass way of speaking but you go right ahead and support it, dumbass.
“The first thing I want to mention ...”
NFM.
So you're saying that Franklin obviously doesn't have a subscription to National Geographic?
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
I like when they say "A completed catch".
I for one think this is a strange thing to get all bent out of shape about. Just saying.
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
So, then, the word should never be used, because it perfectly describes what it's supposed to describe, to the point where it shouldn't describe what it describes?
Yeah, delete that dang word from the English language since there's no good time to use it. It should be left on the Latin ash pile.
If something is ‘obvious’ you don’t need to use the word. This usage has been epidemic for at least a dozen years and I can’t take it anymore. Talking to you, James Franklin. Talking to you, Saquon. STOP IT!
The word obviously is literally the most overused word.
Your post was an obvious attempt at making something simple, complicated
.You’re wrong, wrong and wrong but you knew that.
By the way, did you enjoy the blowhard blaming the Obama Administration for the indictments of Collins and Hunter? Both of the investigations were begun by his own Dept. of Justice. Everyday the pig outdoes himself.
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