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Trite expressions that annoy you
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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Right now astute investors, writers and brokers involved in this market segment are gearing up and literally combing global markets for the next hot plays.

-- Neil Charnock
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006
PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
numazawa wrote:
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Right now astute investors, writers and brokers involved in this market segment are gearing up and literally combing global markets for the next hot plays.

-- Neil Charnock


Holy frijole! Don't get me started on globalisation and international studies triteisms. ESPECIALLY with the DIS kids here: any essay that has some variation of the phrase "in today's rapidly globalising world" in the introduction gets short shrift from flotsam.

I want to shove a flat world up Thomas Friedman's ass.
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Delirium's Brother



Joined: 08 May 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's another galling (trite) espression over-used by the media:

  1. "the so-called `x'"

Here's an example of its usage: "WaPo is touting a new Pew survey showing that the so-called �Security Moms� are moving away from the Republican Party..."

If you listen closely, it comes up a lot in newscasts. The other expressions cited here are certainly annoying, but this one is a whole order of magnitude more vexing for me. It's an indication that nobody wants to take responsibility for their own discourse any longer.
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Delirium's Brother



Joined: 08 May 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
numazawa wrote:
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Right now astute investors, writers and brokers involved in this market segment are gearing up and literally combing global markets for the next hot plays.

-- Neil Charnock


"Gearing up," well that's irksome too. Not as tedious as "the so-called x," but still tiresome in its own way. Especially since there is no cohesive or coherent connections between the metaphorical use of "gearing up" and "combing," or "hot plays." Maybe we could clone JongnoGuru, and send his duplicates out to news organizations around the world to chastise them regarding their delapidated prose. He can always come up with an entertaining and cogent turn of phrase. Isn't Korea the `hub' of cloning?
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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
flotsam wrote:

I want to shove a flat world up Thomas Friedman's ass.



That would probably only lead to a Whole-Earth Movement next morning.
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006
PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"I never would have pegged you for..."
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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Delirium's Brother wrote:
Here's another galling (trite) espression over-used by the media:

  1. "the so-called `x'"


I so prefer 'soi-disant'.

E. E. Cummings used that phrase a lot. (and yes, it's correct to capitalize his name: http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm and http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps2.html)

This last bit is just for the pedants and persnicketies on the board. Like myself.
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006
PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Woland wrote:
persnicketies on th board


Oh, you would never sink to that level.
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quote from Frederick Gilbert, the president and vice-chancellor of a small Canadian university in today's BBC:

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"It was literally a tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention,"


Whaaaa?


No, they weren't running a kissing booth-- it was a poster campaign.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I could care less
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milarka



Joined: 27 Apr 2006
PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
well spank you very much
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jinju



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
- thank you

- please. This one bothers me most when its in the context of "Please give me some money, I dont have any". Ill give you money if you amuse me. Dont just ask.

- Im sorry
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
kermo wrote:
Quote from Frederick Gilbert, the president and vice-chancellor of a small Canadian university in today's BBC:

Quote:
"It was literally a tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention,"


Whaaaa?


No, they weren't running a kissing booth-- it was a poster campaign.

What was on the posters? Maybe it was something involving tongues in cheeks. You don't know for sure, do you?
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The Man known as The Man



Joined: 29 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have a nice day.
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krats1976



Joined: 14 May 2003
PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Leslie Cheswyck wrote:

Can't remember the movie, but a scene in it went like this:

"Is that a threat?"

"Yes, it is."



Isn't that from Mask of Zorro?

It's used at the end of Harry Potter 5 too (the book, of course, as the movie isn't out yet. Wink ).

VanIslander wrote:

I could care less


Oooooooh... I hate that one too. Evil or Very Mad
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