“whatever”
When someone utters this catch all word to you…….then you know you have gotten the better of them.
I was engaging in a veritable cornucopia of verbal diatribe (that’s code for “argument”) with someone the other day. I gave them my version of events and they gave me theirs. Then I gave them mine and that was their comeback….”whatever”.
“Whatever” when said by someone in a debate, signifies that they concede two things:
1) I have lost this argument.
2) I have no further pearls of wisdom to dispel on the subject.
“Whatever” is the way some people get out of an argument/debate that they have lost, while trying to leave with some scrap of their dignity intact.
If you get “whatever”, take some satisfaction that you have “won”. Don’t rub it in, don’t continue..just realize that you have won. It’s like someone saying “Uncle” when the schoolyard bully is giving them a titty twister.
I rarely use the word “whatever” in day to day conversation/debate with others. Now with my wife…hmmm, ya…”whatever”.
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