I noticed earlier this week that I have recently begun prefacing a lot of sentences with the word "frankly.". Frankly (like just there. Didn't even realize it was done until I typed it.) it's a word I have always disliked. There's nothing pretty about it, and it's not really the kind of inaesthetic word that is okay because it's descrbing something nasty. It's just not a likable word. "Candidly" is much nicer.
Using "frankly" so often has led me to feel like something of a more vindictive person. As if I judge things more often (and always feel the need to somehow ameliorate my harshness by prefacing it with word that says "Hey, I'm telling the truth, so get over it, because it's straight-up fact." (Which, actually, is usually true, because my sentences usually, rather amusingly, start with "Frankly, I think…" So it could go either way.)
But my real question is, is Frank really the one I want to be paying homage to? I need truth but not snarlinginyourfaceblunt. Even if I'm only talking to myself, because…frankly…it sort of freaks me out, just a little. I like being non-confrontational, and most of the things i preface with "frankly" can be very unnecessarily confrontational, if I actually said them to someone's face. Does that just mean I'm not really that bold of a person, either?
I have to say that I've never given much thought to the word "frankly". I don't know. I guess it is rather blunt/I don't really care what you think.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kiersten, sometimes you just have to practice being bold to be a bold person.
Haha. Isn't "Be bold' an item on my UAoAL? I'm going to be working on that one for a while, although I have to say that being bold sounds super awesome until I have to actually get up and do it. It's probably one of those things that gets easier over time?
ReplyDeleteI don't like the word frankly because it makes me think of hot dogs.
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