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"I'M SHOCKED, SHOCKED.."
this was funny in CASABLANCA but every friggin'
"jourmalist" in America thinks he/she is the first one to quote it.
"Drugs in baseball? Im shocked, shocked"
"Corruption in politics? Im shocked, shocked!"
'scuse me while i retch.
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The Bush administration gave us the word "robust" (obviously test marketed before being employed in public).
RUMSFIEld: "we have a ROBUST foreign policy"
pathetic
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STARTING OFF EVERY SENTENCE WITH "basically....."
just suffered anexample before typing this
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And what about "passing away"? Remember the good old days when people just "died"?
I've always heard that too. It supposedly takes the sting out of saying, "Frank's dead, and he ain't NEVER coming back", and makes reference to "going to the other side" so in effect they're NOT dead.
"passed on' is more in keeping with the feeling that the body is dead but the spirit lives on .
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The Bush administration gave us the word "robust" (obviously test marketed before being employed in public).
RUMSFIEld: "we have a ROBUST foreign policy"
pathetic
ROBUST should refer to cheese and nothing else.
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's funny that this debate should arise on a film-music forum. One of those great put-downs on the artform is that 'film music relies too much on cliche.' You have to know the cliches in order to avoid them. So with language. I don't mind at all when someone says 'at the end of the day' etc. if it COMMUNICATES. What I think silly is people who ignore the pertinent content of an argument just BECAUSE someone said, 'at the end of the day' somewhere.
In fact a lot of this is second-hand pseud that people who wish to APPEAR sophisticated use to show they're 'original'. Originality is essential in the arts but not always in everyday speech. Oscar Wilde at the breakfast table would be terribly dull after a while.
Now a phrase I really dislike is that old Americanism, 'We have to talk'. When someone, especially a woman, says 'We have to talk', dive for the nearest foxhole, lock your shield over your head, and inject vaccines immediately, because it's NEVER a pleasant surprise.
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"It is what it is"
"This is true." (UGGGGG)
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