IMHO

on the mark

on the money

http://theimho.org/

Humble in my humble opinion
Honest in my honest opinion

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honest

reliance on what ppl thought it meant in 1985 is pure shithousery

its honest

shit hosery

hopeless

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hopeless

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the correct answer

my opinion, that’s where i’m a viking

International My House Of

Honest. Any other answer is cack

We don’t need another poll - Tina turner

honest - that’s the entire tone of it. humble is so weird and victorian.

i'm weird and victorian

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Horse's

Humble it is.

Honest opinion is so prosaic.

never using it again due to anxiety. thx thread.

or imho = imho and is free standing. as the person receiving will read it as they understand it and intent cannot be perceived.

BTW IIRC Buzzfeed is polling this exact question and honest is winning

that doesn't put Honest in the best light

what the fucking shit. this is going to be one of those where I just assume all the people with the wrong answer are just trolling tbh (where tbh = "to be humble")

the weird thing about this is that i can't even remember how i read IMHO. it's all jumbled now.

horny

omg chihuahua

hows it goin little guy

(pronounced chi-HOO-ah-HOO-ah, btw)

omg = oh my goiter

Write-in for "IMVO = In My Viking Opinion"

I will die on this hamartia

Honest would be so weird - you’re telling me your opinion is honest? Well I didn’t think that it mightn’t be, until now.

Honest would be so weird - you’re telling me your opinion is honest? Well I didn’t think that it mightn’t be, until now.

otm

in my hornet’s opinion

verily i say

I’m with AF, if you mean “honest” then IMO is all you need

“humble” is sometimes a valuable modifier when offering an opinion, “honest” is not - who the fuck lies about their opinions?

also

'in my not so honest opinion'

cmon

think

if u think humble adds anything and honest doesnt then youre just blinkered

theyre both modifiers in the sentence, both serving a purpose

people add truthclaimers, reinforcements of their sincerity into their sentences all the time. seriously, they do. honestly. scouts honour. word. no lie.

people claim their opinion as humble fuck all of the time.

and when someone claims honesty, ghey have the right to do so. but an assertion that their opinion is humble or otherwise is vanity and ought to be the judgement of the listener or verified by other means.

humbkers are cunts basically

Humble is the “correct” one because “in my humble opinion” is an idiom that goes back decades (a pretty stuffy, lawyerly? one - searching for the variant “it is my MOST humble opinion that” on google books turns up a lot of mid-20th century legislative committees). Anyway the use of humble isn’t vanity - it’s essentially a garden-variety hedge (dys) but that’s irrelevant anyway cause the people who turned the phrase into an internet acronym were almost certainly using it in a jocular, lightly ironic way - ie the ns in imnsho was already implied.

What seems to have happened is that people in recent years who are unfamiliar with the phrase have made the (mistaken but perfectly logical) assumption that the h is the same h as in tbh, cause why would you go to “humble” if you didn’t already know “in my humble opinion” was a thing? And as we’re all good descriptivists it’s now both, and which way you read it says nothing about you except whether you happened to know that was what it was supposed to be a billion years ago when we were all learning the internet

I'm willing to believe humble is correct. I voted for honest.

I’d like to vote for honest tbh but to do so would be dishonest, I’ve only just found out honesters exist and I doubt I’ll ever read it differently

Also as mh noted in another thread, “if you want my honest opinion”/“I’ll give you my honest opinion” are things ppl say, but you won’t hear someone use the specific construction “in my honest opinion” out loud, because it’s a stupidly clunky way of just saying “honestly” (whereas, old-fashioned as it is, I feel like I’ve definitely heard “in my humble opinion” come out of someone’s mouth)

my experience is quite the opposite.

good day to u

hallowed

humble. obviously. i didn't read all those guides to internet abbreviations in the 1990s for nothing.

looking forward to next year's poll: "laughing out loud" or "literally overloaded (with) laughter"???

I'm fully aware that humble sounds pompous and old fashioned but have already made peace with the fact that as a British person many of the words I use will sound pompous and old fashioned to Americans.

Even the word rubbish sounds fancy to me, like if someone announced they'd make a pot of rubbish and offered me a plate I'd be like 'yes, please!'

I think everyone can start to face up and gestalt their freak on, to be quite holistic. Also, welcome to finland, limousines of lithuania, beer bubbles quietly.

why is everyone always reminding me that 'bears ride bicycles' because that is neither true nor relevant to the conversation

seems like dmac will not be humbled

Don't get why some people think "in my humble opinion" sounds pompous or vain. It's a useful hedge/modifier.

Humble is the “correct” one because “in my humble opinion” is an idiom that goes back decades (a pretty stuffy, lawyerly? one - searching for the variant “it is my MOST humble opinion that” on google books turns up a lot of mid-20th century legislative committees). Anyway the use of humble isn’t vanity - it’s essentially a garden-variety hedge (dys) but that’s irrelevant anyway cause the people who turned the phrase into an internet acronym were almost certainly using it in a jocular, lightly ironic way - ie the ns in imnsho was already implied.

What seems to have happened is that people in recent years who are unfamiliar with the phrase have made the (mistaken but perfectly logical) assumption that the h is the same h as in tbh, cause why would you go to “humble” if you didn’t already know “in my humble opinion” was a thing? And as we’re all good descriptivists it’s now both, and which way you read it says nothing about you except whether you happened to know that was what it was supposed to be a billion years ago when we were all learning the internet

― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Saturday, May 5, 2018 4:35 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's the thread folks, wins wins

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

hold up
ilx
be humble

I had no idea that anyone thought the "h" stood for "honest".

I've actually read the whole thread now and still wtf. Who the fuck says "in my honest opinion"?

I'm just going to assume darragh invented this as a troll and move on.

no i've posed the question irl and it's almost 50/50

MOVING ON CAN'T HEAR YOU

Way to destroy Netspeak, millennials. See if I ever defend you again.

wins with essential analysis itt

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part of why it's fun to use is because of its faux salt-of-the-earth flavor

shocked to discover who the "honest" truthers are in this thread

humbly, submit

It's about people posting on the Internet so it's 'In My Horrible Opinion'.
But really, it's humble.

i thought long and hard and voted honest, realised later i definitely should have voted humble. it was an honest mistake.

IMHO it will be a very sad thing if 'honest' would actually win this poll.

people add truthclaimers, reinforcements of their sincerity into their sentences all the time. seriously, they do. honestly. scouts honour. word. no lie.

i appreciate the thread for giving me the insight that this is a cunts move on a par w false humility but without the scope for irony

✓

honest bomb

Honest, there is going to be a lot of people disappointed here.

imho you mean "outraged"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sanity prevails.

well if ilx majority think it in 2018 its unimpeachably correct

humble. honest is redundant

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That just hurts my eyes.

now that i've been corrected i see clearly how it is ridiculous

xp its your hack optician

"in my hoarfrost opinion" is my favorite immortal song

Tbf, the Buzzfeed question is preceded by a write-up by someone who i) thinks it is "honest" and ii) tells us that they have done a previous survey that went strongly in favour of "honest", and is thus influencing the impressionable voter to think that "in my honest opinion" might be a common expression and not a redundant string of words.

3xp

most words are redundant its no argument

“In my opinion” is redundant anyway just say the thing.

fuckin crucial point tbf

To be forthcoming?

Well, no, my 'argument', if it is that, is that one of these phrases is a common expression. That there is a stupid redundancy in the other is just a bonus. xps

both are common, humble is pretty dated

it's practically in there with prithee mlady tbph

OK, if you've actually heard people say "in my honest opinion", that's fair. I haven't.

(I can think of situations where it can make a difference for the speaker to specify that they are expressing an opinion as opposed to a normative claim btw.)

“In my humble opinion” would be a silly thing to actually say in YOOL 2018 because everyone would know that you are just saying it to mean “in my arrogant opinion”. Whereas imho is an Internet particle, like “like” or “um”, that serves a prosodic rather than semantic purpose.

All normative claims fail, ergo it should be taken as read that I’m expressing an opinion.

silby is the best imao

Fight the good fight big fella

I don't see how those are arguments for "honest"! (And in any case, the ironic "in my humble opinion" does say something more than imo would on its own.) At most, they might be arguments against my half-assed nsh prescriptivism. A dedicated descriptivist would abstain here.

NB I’m not arguing for “honest”, I’m just making unrelated comments, probably because I’m the best, in deems’ opinion.

thank you Sund4r & silby for talking sense when i wasn't checking this thread. encouraged by results, extremely discouraged/mildly depressed by that BuzzFeed poll

i've never heard honest until this poll what the heck is that

^^

Guess what imbho means

Nvm

a choice for 'hipster' would have run away with this poll