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Well, basically, I think basically is a meaningless word.
Like, that is just so true, you know? I think, it's like you've basically hit the nail on like, the head, you know?
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I see, in view of the toughening competitive situation, you have based your strategy on your core competence 
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I see, in view of the toughening competitive situation, you have based your strategy on your core competence
Kindly clarify that statement. Seldom has anyone dared accused me of competence in anything, so your statement leaves my neurons (yes, both of them) completely baffled.
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One man's (mine) example of meaningless words are another man's neuronic alarm 
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By the way, thanks for the consciousness refs, shanks. Keep me busy for a while... (you wish!)
Pleasure.
More than happy also to point you towards personal discussions and archives (of a leetle salon I once frequented) with all sorts of consciousness debates on it. (But only if you become truly obsessed like I am.)
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It seems to me that there are some words that, being redundant in context, achieve meaninglessness (or have it thrust upon them?)
For instance, I find a number of people in the UK using the phrase "my work colleagues". I have never understood why the word 'work' has to be in there, since 'colleague' implicitly carries that meaning anyway.
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As I posted that message, the sense of deja vu was strong enough for me to have listened to it! And I didn't even bother to search. Dang. Heck. Poot. Or as a lady on another board said - I am furking stuping.
Ah well - at least it's all taking me closer ot addict. (Am I an incipent addict here, or an inchoate one?)
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inchoate oneHey, shanks, is that really how you spell incoherent? 
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Ah well - at least it's all taking me closer ot addict. (Am I an incipent addict here, or an inchoate one?)
You make a good point, shanks. Since addicts are renowned for showing a depraved indifference to the means used to quiet their cravings, we should expect similar conduct from AWAD addicts, nascent or otherwise. As the monkeys on our respective backs grow ever larger and more insistent, we should expect to see ever more shameless skulduggery in pursuit of the next fix. I say this by way of explaining why I am about to post this same reply 285 times!
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