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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2013 at 08:51
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2013 at 08:55
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2013 at 02:29
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation


No - quiet desperation is the manner in which us English read the grammar of others

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2013 at 08:31
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation


No - quiet desperation is the manner in which us we English read the grammar of others

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2013 at 15:50
You can add IMO just to let everyone know that it's a matter of opinion, and even if you are very assured to the degree that you feel convinced, adding IMO is a way to acknowledge that it is an opinion and it will welcome others to present their alternate views.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2013 at 17:15
IMO, it's not like it matters. In fact, colloquial language is brimming with meaningless, non-statement filler-phrases.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2013 at 17:21
That's strange.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2013 at 20:57
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I'm quite happy about good manners. Rudeness it's probably my biggest pet peeve in the world. But an H in an IMO it's just an extra letter, IMO.

Have an awesome, best-of-your-life, unforgettable day.


I've occasionally seen IMAO - In My Arrogant Opinion.

There's a famous saying, but no one remembers the second half of it:
"Opinions are like a**holes - everybody's got one, but nobody wants to look at the other guy's."

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 02:20
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation


No - quiet desperation is the manner in which us we English read the grammar of others

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Took yer time...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 05:54
Excuse me but which new problems have occurred by people using IMO?

People use IMO / IMHO because the net is full of oversensitive people which will react like mentally retarded when confronted with someone not sharing their opinion. In the vast majority of cases using IMO / IMHO should be completely unnecessary but it's a way of telling the other net users that you are not one of those retarded and that you can deal with people having a different opinion.

Unnecessary yes, but causing new problems???
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 06:56
^ there is much merit in what the cranky Belgium dweller states. All these qualifiers at the end of written messages like IMO, IMHO etc seem to mirror the modern paranoia manifest in everyone and their dog prefacing any written statement with 'without prejudice' i.e. you cannot use what I have written against me in any subsequent court case.
This is usually spurious bollocks as the words will not act to automatically confer immunity to the communication

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 07:16
I use IMHO quite often, but not out of paranoia.
Why should it be, since it means, as we all know: In My Hyperintelligent Opinion WinkCool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 09:05
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

False modesty is an English thing.

I thought it was quiet desperation


No - quiet desperation is the manner in which us we English read the grammar of others

Smile


Took yer time...

Forgive me - I was sleeping when you wrote it.  Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 10:14
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Excuse me but which new problems have occurred by people using IMO?

People use IMO / IMHO because the net is full of oversensitive people which will react like mentally retarded when confronted with someone not sharing their opinion. In the vast majority of cases using IMO / IMHO should be completely unnecessary but it's a way of telling the other net users that you are not one of those retarded and that you can deal with people having a different opinion.

Unnecessary yes, but causing new problems???
 
Well said ......and that is  the reason I often use it on various forum discussions.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 11:15
It's just fluffy convention, a rhetorical device that some people find useful.  Just because it doesn't add any meat to the sentence doesn't mean it shouldn't be there.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 15:28
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

People use IMO / IMHO because the net is full of oversensitive people which will react like mentally retarded when confronted with someone not sharing their opinion. In the vast majority of cases using IMO / IMHO should be completely unnecessary but it's a way of telling the other net users that you are not one of those retarded and that you can deal with people having a different opinion.

Unnecessary yes, but causing new problems???
Eh, ... that makes it necessary.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - April 04 2013 at 15:31
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 16:43
IMO having a strong opinion on IMO is just being overly opinionated. IMO those people need to get a life
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 21:08
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

IMO having a strong opinion on IMO is just being overly opinionated. IMO those people need to get a life


That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2013 at 21:22
What I hate is when I see it in a review;  for chrissake, we know it's your opinion, that'swhat a review is.   It's even worse coming from a collaborator, it's like saying  " I'm not really sure if I'm right or if you'll agree or if my thoughts are valid or how this comes off or anything, but here's what I think.  Heh. "


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