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Article: "Whatever" do you mean? With a single word, we can now dismiss one another quickly and definitively.(word use in popular speech )(Column)
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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I'm not exactly sure who first used it on me. It might have been my treasured teenage niece or one of my beloved step-granddaughters. Either way, I have the distinct memory that it was someone younger than I, someone to whom I was delivering a buoyant lecture about the importance of kindness or some such thing. The listener restlessly shifted her hips, rolled her eyes and departed with a one-word retort: "Whatever."
It was relatively light, that "whatever," a little singsongy, adolescent and good-natured. Nonetheless, I registered it hard. I had been dismissed, shut down, made to feel preachy and decidedly uncool. Could one little word be so powerful? It was an ...
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