Comments on: Amy Schumer is very sorry https://sorrywatch.com/3645/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:52:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/3645/#comment-180383 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:01:47 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=3645#comment-180383 When I received, at the close college, my 8th grade homeroom teacher’s personal assessment of me – for which I of course did not ask – she said that I would amount to much in life if I could prune the word “Okay” from my vocabulary.

I think uprooting the word “Sorry” and salting the field would have been much better advice. It is hideously reflexive and addictive and the more you hear it sometimes, the worse it gets… And is it sincere? Is it actual apology? Or an “excuse me for being alive?”

UGH.

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