At the end of the day... we're fed up with clichs

[eccentric genius]

I hear what you are saying. Basically, there is nothing new under the sun.

LOL

eccgen

www.plainenglish.co.uk
23 March 2004
At the end of the day... we're fed up with clichs.

I saw an article on this in the Sunday Times, thought it rather slipped

the

eel past the pot of reckoning myself.
Surprised it didn't include "green sky solution" (apparently like blue sky
thinking but you can build on it).
cheers,

[eccentric genius]

BTW, what is a "clich"?

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eccgen

www.plainenglish.co.uk
23 March 2004
At the end of the day... we're fed up with clichs.

I saw an article on this in the Sunday Times, thought it rather slipped

the

eel past the pot of reckoning myself.
Surprised it didn't include "green sky solution" (apparently like blue sky
thinking but you can build on it).
cheers,

[g***@eject.co.za]

I don't know so much... I used to think that clichés 'sucked' but I find
that writers are by no means the only ones who use them. Everyday ordinary
speech is often filled with clichés. We use them to make sure people know
what we mean. The avid use of 'like', for example, is used when someone is
expressing their opinion or not quite sure of what they're saying. There is
a big difference between, "He was like six foot four with like brownish eyes
and like a kind of green shirt." and "He was six foot four with brownish
eyes and a kind of green shirt."

I think that, like all things, clichés have their place. I tend to use a lot
of them in direct speech because they help to convey characters. When
writing in the point of view of someone who isn't very well educated I'll
also use them a lot. It's glorious (I wouldn't dare use a clichéd word like
nice or wonderful) that writers worry so much about them, but the average
man in the street (or character in the street) doesn't really seem to stress
about them.

IMHO
T

www.plainenglish.co.uk
23 March 2004
At the end of the day... we're fed up with clichs.

I saw an article on this in the Sunday Times, thought it rather slipped

the

eel past the pot of reckoning myself.
Surprised it didn't include "green sky solution" (apparently like blue sky
thinking but you can build on it).
cheers,

[JOE]

Post by eccentric genius
BTW, what is a "clich"?

Back in the day, before they were a dime a dozen, the term
was 'clich'. As time marched slowly on, with the dawning of
a new day, the 'clich-A' was born. This to differentiate it from
the original Clich - itself as old as father time; certainly no
spring chicken. Then the enterprising French sank their teeth into
the term by its tail, and spelled it 'cliché, as the French are wont
to do.

But time marches inexorably on, and a new day should now dawn on
the birth of a Phoenix from the ashes of writing, a Clich-B -
to lead us to the promised land of writing, like a horse
to water, to allow our writing to ride that horse into the sunset
of father time.

The End.