> I just couldn’t resist the music of a rhythm. So you found the rhetorical aesthetic of the “You know… right?” pattern to be satisfying and useful in this con

> I just couldn’t resist the music of a rhythm. So you found the rhetorical aesthetic of the “You know… right?” pattern to be satisfying and useful in this conversation! >…a good tactic to make this point without escalating, I’ve found. That makes sense I suppose, but I think we can agree that your next sentence: > There is almost no circumstance where “you know … right?” makes you worthwhile, pleasurable, or persuasive to talk to Was very much an escalation. It looks like you would’ve been more effective if you’d stuck with your explicitly favored strategy of using the “You know… right?” pattern. You know you’ve made a compelling argument in favor of speaking in this manner, right?