I prefer it, honestly, It signals that whatever follows is at a lower level of credibility/confidence. Then, if it sounds really confident anyway, I now know something else about the speaker.
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Thank you. Great advice.
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I think you've finally learned how to piss off the complexity nerds
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1/ Frequently when this comes up about a legal question, e.g. “is this person who occasionally works with my team an independent contractor or an employee” Rather than saying “it depends” I will try to say something like “well, so when it comes to this there is, there are
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2/ some situations where the answer is clear but usually there is a grey area.” I then describe the case where answer is clearly YES — e.g. person shows up at set hours, you tell them what to do, they work under your supervision, and then the case where the answer is clearly no
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How tedious.
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The Internet: composed 10% of people doing genuinely interesting and creative things with language while the remaining 90% look for ways they can waggle their fingers and tell people they’re languaging wrong.
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Also, ‘yes and no’
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That one can sometimes be useful if the details are interesting
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I can speak to 2 cases. If we’re talking X then it depends, and if we’re talking Y it really depends.
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