From WSJopinion: Without such clichés as “bring to the table,” “level playing field,” “tipping point” and “the American people,” most politicians would be reduced to stuttering, if not rendered speechless, writes Joseph Epstein
In “It’s Been Said Before,” Orin Hargraves’s excellent study of clichés, he maintains that “journalism is demonstrably the greatest depository of clichés in English,” with talk radio and social media coming up fast on the outside.
The reason is not merely that journalists write under pressure but that “consumers of journalism accept conventional and stereotyped ways of expressing ideas, whether consciously or unconsciously, as part of the diet.”To Read the Full Story
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