#rakes01e02 — Public Fediverse posts

I tend not to agree with Cleaver Greene from Rake often, but he has a point about people (ReplyGuys) who use "Correct" in conversation..

[video clip from the TV show Rake: two women sitting at a table with others, at a birthday dinner in a fancy restaurant. Cleaver is also in attendance]

Leanne's friend:
You know, it's the wretched politics which drives me nuts. It's supposed to be a happy event..

Leanne:
Correct. That is absolutely correct.

Cleaver (interrupting):
Oh, excuse me.. sorry. Linda, isn't it?

Leanne:
Leanne

Cleaver:
Leanne. Sorry to interrupt, Leanne, but I'm curious about something..

Leanne:
Oh, yes?

Cleaver:
I've noticed you say the word "correct" a lot.

Leanne:
Really?

Cleaver:
Yeah

Leanne:
I hadn't noticed

Cleaver:
Yes, when somebody says something that you agree with, you don't say 'yes' or 'uh-huh', or even, 'you go, girl!', you say 'correct'.

Leanne:
...I'm sorry, you've lost me, Cleaver.

Cleaver:
Oh, well it's sort of like a school teacher talking to a ten year old, you know? You're not actually agreeing, you're approving. It's as if the statement is invalid until you deem it so.

Leanne:
Your point being?

Cleaver:
Well, it's like you're an arbiter of the truth. It's a way of being smug and superior, Leanne, which is why so many fuckwits in the city use it. And now it's spread into the mouths of the spouses like some sort of contagion. Your kids'll be saying it soon from the backseat of the four wheel drive Porsche, feeling safe and smug and superior! Buying a Porsche SUV, for the sake of the kids' safety, I don't think I've heard such transparently banal bullshit in my entire life! (Leanne throws a glass of wine in his face)
You go girl!
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