Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
OK, specifically, OTOH seems like saying "here's an objection to that thing I just said, it didn't occur to me before, maybe I should rethink", however=but, nevertheless means "ignore anything to the contrary of what I'm about to say because this is what we're going to do".
That could just be me.
I don't think I've ever said, "on the one hand" but I do say, "on the other hand" quite a bit and "on the third hand" more often than my coworkers would probably like.
I agree that "nevertheless" definitely gives off more of a "despite all that's gone before" vibe than the other two.
Like I said, I'm trying to give them a more precise idea of how it works, regardless of whether it would always be translated that way. "Conversely" is probably the most accurate, but that seems a bit stuffy.
I try to avoid what my father said frequently, which was "and on the other hand, he had warts." It runs through my head everytime someone says "On the one hand," though.
I like "conversely", probably because I am easily impressed by stuffiness.
I'll certainly agree that they're all pretty close and could be considered for inclusion in the same hypothetical spot in a sentence if you, say, felt like you were using "conversely" too much.
Which my brain is now trying to make mean "in the fashion of Chuck high tops".
I've always taken "on the other hand" as implying that what came before was on the first hand by default. (In C, the counting would start with the 0th hand.)
Yes, I am currently taking a break from programming class.
"and on the other hand, he had warts."
Ha!
I'd say "on the other hand" for casual, "conversely" for fancy.
I like "conversely", probably because I am easily impressed by stuffiness.
I wanna use "inversely." Or maybe "contrapositively."
Alternately?
OK, I made it home without plunging face-first into a bag of chips.
I think the main thing is that I get hungry at 3:00 every day no matter what, quirk of the metabolism or something, and I'd exhausted my last snack at 2:00. But two small pieces of candy really were enough to stem the growly stomach and desperate hunger feeling. So I just need to budget my points and bring a snack accordingly, even if it's something tiny.
Off to cook dinner. Chicken cutlets from a Mark Bittman recipe, roasted sweet potato, and salad, all already budgeted for in WW.