Humans are such anthropomorphizers that all we can say for sure is that, speaking for ourselves, we can't imagine living in the trees without electricity and hot water and what's so bad about offering a fellow primate a drink, a warm bed, a cooked meal?
"Twitterati", describing users of the social networking site, and "fo' shizzle", slang speak meaning "for sure", have also been added to the dictionary this year.
"I have to make sure I'm speaking for the underdog".
"He will continue to be in our strategic meetings," Obama said, "but his focus is going to be on making sure that, when speaking for me or the White House, he's got it all buttoned down".
"I'm sure I'm speaking for a lot of players when I say this, that what he said doesn't just make him look bad, it makes players in general look bad," Favre said.
He said: "I am sure I am speaking for the whole of Gibraltar when I say that we consider this has been a serious and unnecessary failure on the part of the Spanish SVA which has had outrageous consequences in respect of the violation of our sovereignty".
I'm sure I'm speaking for all parties when I tell you we will continue to strive to do exactly that.
The characters do speak for themselves, to be sure -- without introduction.
"I don't know if he's being groomed to be C.E.O., but the performance sure speaks for itself".
In the lobby of the federal courthouse, a lawyer for Father McGuire, Stephen M. Komie, said, "If Father McGuire could speak for himself, I'm sure he'd say these folks are trying to attack the treasury of the church".
