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"Perfect storm" of cliches make bad English list
Reuters ^
| 12/31/07
| Andrew Stern
Posted on 12/31/2007 8:13:17 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: SoCal Pubbie
To: ricks_place
I nominate Global Warming as being over used.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:28:41 AM PST
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: ßuddaßudd
I nominate Billy Mayes...the new Ron Popiel...AAAAAACCCK!
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:30:11 AM PST
by
woollyone
(entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
To: SuziQ
This government is “handicapping” people for 3 generations!
To: SuziQ
“sucking all the oxygen out of”
To: Charles Henrickson
“But “at the end of the day” is so 2006.”
“Is so” belongs on the list.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:30:57 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: awakened
How can we forget “At the end of the day....” as part of this list?That's at the top of my list.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:31:07 AM PST
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Charles Henrickson
Sports talk cliche of the year: "do their due diligence."That is so California 1991.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:31:11 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
To: ricks_place
I’d like to pass a law against “ginormous” (pronounced jye-normous). It’s not even a real word!! It is so overused by those trying to sound hip.
Our very masculine governor (J. Napolitano) and her FeminNazi political peers/media sycophants use “ginormous” on a regular basis.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:32:43 AM PST
by
RooRoobird20
(Thankfully Convered Catholic)
To: Charles Henrickson
“It’s hot”
Makes me want to scream every time I hear it.
To: Charles Henrickson
What irritates me in current sports talk is the new way to express the plural of the baseball stat RBI. Over decades of common usage the abbreviation RBI (runs batted in) has become a noun itself. The sentence “Derek Jeter has 114 RBIs†is thus acceptable. But now extra intelligent sports news readers show their superior knowledge by saying “Derek Jeter has 114 RBIâ€. It doesn’t sound right.
To: CholeraJoe
"difference-maker"
"impact bat"
To: ricks_place
One thing I’ve gotten tired of hearing lately is, “Having said that,...”, or “That being said,...”. Way overused.
I’m glad someone submitted, “It is what it is”. Ugh!
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:33:30 AM PST
by
mossyoaks
(Victory for W!!)
To: woollyone
“I nominate Billy Mayes”
Totally agree!!! Why is Billy Mayes now in EVERY infomercial on TV? And why does he scream instead of talk?!? Bad dye job on the beard and hair, too. LOL.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:34:42 AM PST
by
RooRoobird20
(Thankfully Convered Catholic)
To: ricks_place
I hate when people say “Irregardless”-drives me nuts.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:34:42 AM PST
by
MattinNJ
(I'm pulling for Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter-...but I'd vote for Rudy against Hillary)
To: ricks_place
“Having said that...”
That’s got to be one of the most overused cliches of the past few years.
To: SlowBoat407; SuziQ
I nominate “fire in the belly”. I'll second that! It's this election cycle's gravitas.
Absolutely. All in favor?..
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:35:44 AM PST
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: ricks_place
‘on the day’ rather than ‘for the day’.
‘It’s all about...’
empower
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:36:05 AM PST
by
Dedbone
To: ricks_place
At this moment in time...
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:36:29 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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