This is something that bugs me: IMHO/IMVHO

[xulamaude]

What's wrong with IMO?

Humble and Very Humble is stupid.

/rant

[dipsydoodle]

1. What ?

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[xulamaude]

7. In my humble opinion/In my very humble opinion...

See Bains below

[seabeyond]

8. "What ?"... that is just an opinion you know.

[dipsydoodle]

13. I maybe could've understood the question in the Lounge

[seabeyond]

14. ya. maybe a little silly or trivial is a good thing. on my first glass, as it is.

i was gonna check out your thread, that you didnt post, lol, and then see what fun i can find. maybe. or i will digress. who knows.

i love that parody with the Australian women. hands down that is a fav. i do not know why i like it so much. i have watched it endlessly. my youngest son couldnt appreciate it. me.... i hooted and giggled. and still do when i watch. tickles me.

[dipsydoodle]

15. I think meanwhile its been posted elsewhere

Sure I noticed it earlier.

[seabeyond]

16. ya. in this forum, lol. nt

[BainsBane]

2. Those are terms that diminish narrative authority

which is why some people use them here. Typically one does not wish to undermine her own narrative authority, and writing guides advise against it.

[xulamaude]

4. Narrative authority, indeed.

Thanks for 'fleshing' it out.

[xulamaude]

5. Also, I rarely use the word "stupid"

but in this case I think it's appropriate.

[Arcanetrance]

3. IMVHO I think that imo will be ok I repeat it's only imho

[seabeyond]

6. lol lol. ya. when fact, i state it. like now. when i am saying something

that is i think is true, i will always start with... i think. and when it is something i feel and really have nothing of bases, i say i believe.

i realized i did that not so long ago.

and no. i do not feel the need to say imo, unless i am being a tad snarky cause the poster is gonna throw it at me, and i know it.

[xulamaude]

9. Right! "I think", "I believe" -

positive ways of introducing what you have to say.

Humble: having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance

[xulamaude]

10. Another thing -

"I don't think that (something) is true."

versus

"I think that (something) is not true."

Not ever going to catch me saying "I don't think".

[seabeyond]

12. good good. and that whole thing has kinda screwed up my language in ways....

but, fun point.

like that was the only thing that screwed up my language, lol.

[seabeyond]

11. years, decades ago, reading the bible, "humble". i tried. i played humble for a bit. not me at all

totally fake and clueless what or how that was. lol. never messed with humble again. meh... it is what it is.

[ismnotwasm]

17. Sometimes I don't like any shorthand

I think these things come about because it's had to judge intent sometimes-- at least in the earlier days. Now acronyms can be used as sarcasm, to hide being an asshole-- to misdirect.

I think I use IMO because I get a little lazy. Can remember the last time I used IMHO--because my opinions aren't humble, unless I'm talk liking about particle physics with a physicist or something

[redqueen]

18. How about IMNSHO?

[xulamaude]

19. Now that's a different story...

[KitSileya]

20. Huh, I thought the H stood for honest

As in 'I am going to level with you, and tell you what I really think, and not prettify it for the public'. I guess I was wrong.

[xulamaude]

22. I never thought of it like that...

I guess I always just assumed it was humble. That's the only way I've heard it said out loud, anyway.

I like your H better

[redqueen]

21. ...

Any idea why a few people are seemingly fixated on this thread all of a sudden?

[xulamaude]

23. Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis?!

Please don't tell me they're talking shit about this...