Banned. These two syllables should never be uttered aloud. I just overheard a conversation my wife was having on the phone and she used this phrase about six times. Egad, my wife ffs....
Your post seems very lazy, like something that might come from intellectual dullard. I do not see what's so bad about using these words. Maybe there's a connection between the writing style and tone of your post and the fact your wife incorporating a latin phrase into her daily speech agitates you? Sorry if that's harsh.
Sorry I can't give it up. I'm planning on going to Frasier-CON next weekend and expect to use it at least every hour.
Any word/phrase could be annoying when overused. Some are annoying even if used once, like "groovy," but I wouldn't put per se into that category, per se.
There are some generic words that I not only don't mind, but actually like. Sweet or nice are a couple of ones that rise to the top for me. Excellent is good, but I use it judiciously and I don't mind hearing someone overuse awesome too much. Per se is just annoying. Another adjective / adverb that I find redundant is when an engineer speaking to another engineer about a technical subject chooses to apply the redundant adverb, "technically", to speaking. HF, that one really annoys me. It implies that the one uttering the phrase has a superior grasp of the conversation, meh, nope....
It's okay to use it, it's a common latin phrase with a specific meaning, but not more than once in any conversation.
