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E.dU. You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.

I got a really big kick recently from an online discussion. This was at the site

Ask MetaFlow.com where people were talking about socially acceptable ways to

express negative opinions to people. I'm talking about those backhanded phrases like, oh, how nice for you.

Or, hmm, let me know how that turns out. You know, as growing up as a child of the South, I used to hear all the time and used to use all the time, sort of the mother of all backhanded phrases, which as you know Grant, is, bless her heart, bless your heart. I mean, you can get away with saying anything if you just add

bless your heart to it you know she's gained so much weight since that last baby

bless her heart and almost all of these expressions have something in them where they could be read both ways.

So if you don't want to believe that the other person meant you ill will, you can just let yourself go along merrily, right?

Oh, exactly.

I might say, isn't that interesting?

Yeah, that's a good one.

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