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Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:49 am
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Topic: Word use that drives you up the wall!
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Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!

WildBill wrote:"I don't disagree with anything you said."

Does this mean that you agree with everything that he said?
I don't know what it means to the person who said it to you and I'm sure some people use it as double-speak.

However, during my Big 4 years, I worked with a partner who used "I don't disagree" to indicate what was said was true, but might not be the whole truth. Sometimes the gap was incomplete data. Sometimes it was not seeing the forest for the trees. Sometimes he agreed with the facts but not the conclusion. The phrase seemed like his way of softening constructive criticism to staff.

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