To be perfectly honest

I must have been reading some commentary on the use of the English language  last week, but I really can't recall where. It made me stop and think about the absurdity of some of the idoim that is evolving in nour klanguage.

Have you stopped to consider the phrase 'to be perfectly honest'? Here's some web commentary on it's now generally accepted meaning. But .. if you stop and think about it, there might be another meaning somewhere in there.

If you need to say 'to be perfectly honest', doesn't this imply that having to state this now means that at other times you haven't been perfectly honest?

Um, if you haven't been perfectly honest at other times, then his must mean that you have been telling lies at other times.

Rats!! To be perfectly honest ... oh Doh!!!!

So .. another speech affectation

"Can you explain why you did this?"

"So, we thought that.."

Have you noticed? When asked a question, for a growing number of people the word 'Because' seems to have disappeared from their lexicon, to be replaced by the word "So.."

I first noticed it with politicians (I won't name them). However it now seems to be permeating every day speech.

What ever happened to saying "Because .."?