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March 08 2010

queitsch
00:00

Outing "it turns out"

Bobulate

Outing "it turns out":

There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over Paul Graham’s use of the phrase “it turns out.” James Somers’ take:

It’s not that pg is a particularly heavy user of the phrase — I counted just 46 unique instances in a simple search of his site — but that he knows how to use it. He works it, gets mileage out of it, in a way that other writers don’t.
[I]t turns out that “it turns...