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[kermo]

[Thunndarr]

[Qinella]

[tomato]

Most of you are probably not old enough to remember when the word "pathetic" came to be overused.
That was in the early Sixties.

Someone mentioned "have a nice day."
That expression came into vogue in the Seventies, when I was in South America.
You could image the reverse culture shock it created for me when I got back.
Like many of our bad habits, the Koreans are copying this one:
"좋은 하루 되세요."

I'm surprised nobody nominated "awesome"-- or "totally awesome," if you would rather add an adverb.
If I remember correctly, that word had its heyday in the Eighties.

Qinella, what's a backward colon?
Is it something which looks like this?

[Woland]

[numazawa]

[tomato]

Clicheed use of best-selling book titles bothers me.

When Roots came out, the expression "to find one's roots" was heard almost every day.

When Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask came out, the bulletin boards on every campus and shopping mall sported posters reading "Everything you always wanted to know about macrame/origami/karate/square dancing/folk guitar but were afraid to ask."

[tomato]

I just finished reading How to learn a foreign language by Graham E. Fuller.
Let me share a few quotes from page 57:

[Julius]

I loath "One trick pony".

[Qinella]

[khyber]

no fucking worries...
I HATE that word...so very much

and...with VAN on

I COULD care less

[tomato]

I can't stand "more than" as a synonym for "very."
If a person's attendance at a public function is of some sort of personal benefit to the hosting party, I could see why that person is "more than welcome."
That must be where the expression comes from.
But that's no excuse to use the expression where it doesn't make any sense.

My mother didn't like the expression "in-depth."
She couldn't understand why people say "in-depth" to mean "deep" if they don't say "in-width" to mean "wide" or "in-height" to mean "high."

At one time, almost every imaginable type of merchandise was available with an inscription of "Praying Hands" by Albrecht Durer.
That was another of my mother's pet peeves.



When my mother was leafing through a catalogue, she saw a Praying Hands golf cart.
She jokingly suggested buying the item as a gift for a golf enthusiast friend of ours.
It might help up his golf score.

[Jeonnam Jinx]

Listening to the number of times "like" is used in a conversation on a city bus in urban centers drives me crazy! (Just add the accent from the girl who says "Jessica" a hundred times in the MadTV skits and you get the idea)

A: He was like, "No way," and I was like, "Yeah."
B: Like, really?
A: Really. And I was like, "Shut up."
B: Yeah, like, sure.
A: And he was like, she was like, coming on to me.
B: That's like, so, like, groooossss!
A: Like, for sure. I was like, "Get away!"
B: He was like, "Are you kidding me?"
A: I was like, "No, I'm not." Like, man up! Like, my bad or something?
B: You like, did, like, the right thing. Like, for sure.
A: Like, I know.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

[LateBloomer]

Not a trite expression--but in the same spirit.....I hate the rampant use of "utilize" when "use" would do. Nothing says "use" like "use". I like the distinction made in some dictionaries. Utilize means "to find a practical or effective use for something" or to use something in a different or unconventional way..... I am utilizing tin foil to decorate my apartment.

Agree with the comment about "one trick pony". Have used it about twice in my life.....although I did use it in a recent post. It just seemed to fit.

[JongnoGuru]