OK, this is completely off topic, but this sentence start from the article jumped out at me:<p><i>It’s honestly a good question to ask</i><p>Why is it that so many people now start sentences with some variation of &quot;honestly&quot;?  I see it in comments here on HN all the time, and in lots of tech blog posts.<p>Is there a new paper out on how this is effective rhetoric?  Is it a regional tick I haven&#x27;t figured out yet?<p>Honestly, I find it depressing that so many people feel the need to preface what they are saying with a declaration that they are not, in fact, lying to us.