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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I disagree. My sister's family says it to each other all the time. It is said so often that it might as well be "good bye" or "see you soon". They don't "mean it" mean it when they say it. Rather, it's just a way to end a conversation. They obviously love the other person, but that love is not being expressed when they say it. It has become a habitual and thus unconcious expression, signifying nothing.*
*I call your "that's stupid" and raise you with Falkner.
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That would be Faulkner. Alternatively, you could have spelled it Shakespeare.
And it may signify nothing to you, but I doubt it signifies nothing to them. It's okay for you to find it annoying, but you don't have to justify your feeling annoyed with some pronouncement about how your method of saying it less frequently actually conveys more meaning. Strokes and all that.
