I had a prof who would, when presented with a well-argued but wrong opinion, say "Okay, sure. Let's say we do that.", followed by the inevitable "Now look what happens when $pathological_case."
He usually pause for two seconds between those two clauses, so you had a moment to think about your fate.
I love how Paul Newman's character (Sidney J. Mussburger) in The Hudsucker Proxy says "Sure, sure" rapid-fire every other sentence, emphasizing how little he's listening to anyone lower-ranking than he is.
I'd noticed that :-) I find that when I start a sentence with Look I usually mean you need to be smacked and when anyone in the UK starts a sentence with Acutally it means boy are you dumb and am I going to set you right, politely of course cause I'm english.
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Date: 2006-03-29 05:08 pm (UTC)He usually pause for two seconds between those two clauses, so you had a moment to think about your fate.
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