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Dear Faldage: I never wore a snood of any kind.
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Hi Blanche - nice to see you again.
I know that the words "I am a people person" now makes interviewers cringe because it has been overused and really means nothing. Most books and articles on honing your interviewing skills tell you to avoid it like the plaque.
As to the "I'm a pizza person" type of phrase. Isn't just like the air quote scenario - just a way to sound/look cool, part of the hip crowd. I never know what is so bad about saying "I like..."
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I'm a cat person. I don't really like dogs. I identify certain characteristics with cat afficionados, others with dog lovers.
There are plenty of ways to get to the same understanding, but I'm hearing a lot of this usage, seems perfectly natural to meow...
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But when you are talking to people do you say it exactly like that... "I am a cat person" ?
Maybe it is because there is really no French version of this. I generally only hear this on English television and always kinda assumed that, like everything on TV, it doesn't represent the general population.
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I agree with belMarduk that it too easily becomes a cliché. I like many things. The "person" phrases seem to limit the speaker. Hard to see any it makes speaker more worth getting acquainted with.Present company excepted of course.
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Hard to see any it makes speaker more worth getting acquainted with. Present company
excepted of course.Aw, Dr. Bill...you're just not an AWAD person! 
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I am proud to be a people person - but am in no way a spider person! (Killing spiders is womens' work at the stales place!!)
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Bel, are you, or is someone in your immediate family, a dentist, that you avoid things like the plaque? 
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