I’ve done grammatical resolutions for the past few years, and I want to stay in that same vein this year. I find more and more people using the phrase “I feel like” in place of “I think.” I understand that this is supposed to express uncertainty about whatever follows, but I really dislike it being used that way. I hear it enough that it slips into my vocabulary often enough to bring it to my attention, and my resolution this year is to completely stop using “I feel like” in that way.
It irks me in the same way that interviewers who prompt with “Talk about…” do. While I wish I could make interviewers actually ask questions, I don’t really have the power to change that, so I’ll just quietly cringe until one of us relents.