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Gerry Weinberg wrote beautifully about these "lullaby words". https://www.humansystemsinaction.com/lullaby-language/ https://www.humansystemsinaction.com/lullab

Gerry Weinberg wrote beautifully about these "lullaby words". https://www.humansystemsinaction.com/lullaby-language/ https://www.humansystemsinaction.com/lullaby-language/ > “Precisely. It’s what I call a ‘Lullaby Word.’ Like ‘should,’ it lulls your mind into a false sense of security. A better translation of ‘just’ in Jeff’s sentence would have been, ‘have a lot of trouble to.'”

natmaka 2y ago
RFC2119 to the rescue: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119
- tuukkah 2y ago
  You "should" "just" implement the RFC, right? ;-)
  - number6 2y ago
    I do a lot of audition and sometimes start talking in theses phrases - it is really annoying for other people, when my vocabulary differs in meaning to the standard body of language.