It's less a trope, to my mind, than a simple rhetorical device. I admit that I use it fairly regularly. But I don't think that I use it in that particular context. Maybe I do. Is it really the structure that bugs you, or the dismissive bullshit? Or both?
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Date: 2010-08-13 04:07 am (UTC)