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Frank Cotolo
September 21, 2017 |
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Some time during the last decade, the English language picked up a phrase that became enormously
popular. However, people who speak English should hate it and encourage people to rid it from their
conversational lexicon.
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The phrase? "It is what it is."
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Aside from the grammatical horror of this phrase, it is recognized as the substitute for explaining
anything. The phrase is used as an excuse not to further a particular point in a conversation, a
point that the English language can make with correct words, no less correct grammar.
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Let's assume "it," for instance, is the state of politics. One person says, "Aren't you tired of
politics?" The other says, "Politics? Well, it is what it is." That is an insult because anyone who
would ask that question obviously knows about politics. To say politics "is what it is" is to say,
"Politics is politics," or, "Politics will never change, it sucks and you should accept that, you
idiot."
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No one wants to be called an idiot, especially when trying to start a conversation. Yet, no matter
the subject, to say "it is what it is" is to shut down communication with another person.
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