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writercises2009-01-18 05:18 pm
mbarker.livejournal.com) wrote in writercises2009-01-18 05:18 pm
FILL: Too Good To Pass Up
Original posting 31 Dec 2007
Ah, it's the first fine morning of 2008!
And over on CNN, we've got a list of overused phrases? Let's see . . .
What fun! Let's see. Perfect storm, webinar, waterboarding, organic, wordsmithing, authored, post 9/11, surge, give back, something is the new whatever, black friday, back in the day, random, sweet, decimate, emotional, pop, it is what it is, under the bus?
Guess I'm going to have to study the list, I don't think I've heard "it is what it is." Seems a bit redundant. Now, something that wasn't what it is, that might be worth a comment, but being itself - can something be anything else?
Well, let's get on with the day. For those of you who are interested in more details, the list is at . . . hum, old lists, ah, there it is http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
The Lake Superior State University article about the list http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articles.php?articleid=1431
The CNN article about Lake Superior State University's list http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/12/31/banned.words.ap/index.html
Ah, it's the first fine morning of 2008!
And over on CNN, we've got a list of overused phrases? Let's see . . .
What fun! Let's see. Perfect storm, webinar, waterboarding, organic, wordsmithing, authored, post 9/11, surge, give back, something is the new whatever, black friday, back in the day, random, sweet, decimate, emotional, pop, it is what it is, under the bus?
Guess I'm going to have to study the list, I don't think I've heard "it is what it is." Seems a bit redundant. Now, something that wasn't what it is, that might be worth a comment, but being itself - can something be anything else?
Well, let's get on with the day. For those of you who are interested in more details, the list is at . . . hum, old lists, ah, there it is http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
The Lake Superior State University article about the list http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articles.php?articleid=1431
The CNN article about Lake Superior State University's list http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/12/31/banned.words.ap/index.html