Showing posts with label cliche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cliche. Show all posts
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The Latest Banality
It's getting to the point where if I see the phrase "spot on", I immediately begin to feel ill, so I ignore whatever else that person has written. Could all of you spot-on people out there read Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and let the things he writes about there influence your writing, instead of slavish imitation of celebrity jargon?
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