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Hm… cliches, or random, occasionally overused words and sentence fragments?

These aren’t cliches…
A cliche is like, “Be yourself”, which IS the worst of them all.

As an English Major/Grammar Nazi, I don’t have a problem with what are called “filler words” (like, um, I mean) or with overused phrases. What bothers me is when people butcher the language (I=i, you=u, be=b, one=1, etc.) or when they simply refuse to learn the basics of punctuation and sentence structure.

Oh, or the idiots who cant understand that (to, two, too, 2) and (your, you’re) are spelled differently for a reason! They aren’t interchangeable!

Hmm, how bout ‘live life to the fullest’, that one’s pretty awful too lol

“Hello, we’re from the Church of (blank), can we come inside and tell you about Jesus for a while?”

Does that count?

How about just, “Convert, heathen!”?

Xeno Dragon wrote:
As an English Major/Grammar Nazi, I don’t have a problem with what are called “filler words” (like, um, I mean) or with overused phrases. What bothers me is when people butcher the language (I=i, you=u, be=b, one=1, etc.) or when they simply refuse to learn the basics of punctuation and sentence structure.

Oh, or the idiots who cant understand that (to, two, too, 2) and (your, you’re) are spelled differently for a reason! They aren’t interchangeable!

that a fair point but there are people who used the you=u sort of languge, just becasue its easy

but the idiots, now thats abit harsh.some people are dylexic and find it hard to get the grips of that sort of stuff.

Laziness is no excuse for reducing human communication to unintelligible nonsense.

And I’m not talking about people with medical reasons for typing all witchychicky.

D is for Lysdexia.

I did see this on the BBC’s website and thought that perhaps the journalist could put ‘dictionary’ on their xmas list. I didn’t think half of them were cliches.

“A cliche is not just something that lots of people say; It’s something that lots of people say and it conveys some sort of idea or message. A cliche is, in other words, a metaphor characterized by its overuse.” apparenlty.

“it’s not you… it’s me…”

zoo_baw wrote:
“it’s not you… it’s me…”

Oh, I HATE that one. Not only that, 95% of the time, it’s a lie.

I’ve never heard anyone actually say that, though.

me neither, but i’ve kinda heard enough just from those hollywood romantic comedies, so it’s kind of a cliche