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Sunday 24 November 2013

Waffle-mongers

Why is it that when certain waffle-mongers feel a pressing need to say something portentous, they have to put the word arguably before their piece? What is it supposed to add?

Surely the whole world knows this as a waffle-monger's thumb print, so why give the game away at such an early stage?                      

6 comments:

Sackerson said...

Put it into a scale, from "as any fule kno..." down to "only an idiot would think..."

A K Haart said...

Sackers - lower than either of your two examples which at least set some kind of tone.

Woodsy42 said...

Arguably they do so as a sop to people who would disagree :-)

A K Haart said...

Woodsy - aarrggghhuably!

James Higham said...

Arguably, you're right about this, one would suspect, AKH.

A K Haart said...

James - aarrggghhuably again!