QotD: That's So Cliché
Which, ahem, "internets" clichés do you wish would go away already?
I except that language has to evolve. When Shakespeare had his heyday, our language saw all kinds of new words created like "critic", "circumstantial", and "hush". I like that. But I like old things.
I'll be glad when "whom" makes it's way out of the grammar book because so few people ever remember how to apply that word. It's not practical for me. Anything that would sound pretentious to my family members, I can't use it. And if I can't use it, I can't remember the rules for it. (I was relieved to figure this out because I'd thought I was just dumb.)
Most of our new words, I'm guessing, are being created in technology and medicine. That's necessary, useful. But there are new words on the internet, slang that hurts my teeth. "I has a cheeseburger." ?? "Woot" ?? I truly don't want this to get into the mainstream, face to face language. My internet friends do this. Good people. I like you all very much. Please stop!
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UR so cute! ( sorry)
I get your point. Sometimes I feel like the language police.
My apologies to SweetMisery (above) but I spent too many years in Southern California and my overuse of the word "awesome" is unintentional but the alternatives don't excite me. Great? Wonderful? Fantastic?
Awesome, because of the mutators of the language, has now been reduced from it's status of meaning something truly unforgettable to merely something terrific.