Cliche's are dangerous

Self | 8-28-02 | Festa

[Festa]

An article for my college paper. Hopefully the accept it

[Grut]

Cliche's are dangerous

...and apostrophe's aren't always our friends, either.

[Festa]

thi's is know'n by the author'.

[Ahban]

They should. Its a good one. Maybe too much real thought for a modern college campus though.

[SamAdams76]

You can take that to the bank!

[parsifal]

Cliches are dangerous which is why you should look before you leap into one. parsy.

[Minutes]

Your second paragraph....hey, better the rapists and murderers go free THEN the innocent go to jail. ..that word should be 'THAN' *S*

[Revolting cat!]

Well, welcome to Cliché Central!

Allow me to propose that we dedicate this thread to enumerating popular FR clichés in the (vain) hope that ridicule will make them disappear into the abyss once and for all.

A propos clichés, there was once a newspaper review of a Harry Potter book where the reviewer counted a dozen or so clichés on the first two pages of the book. A few days later, a letter to the editor claimed there were as many as 15. I shlepped to a bookstore to count them myself and found only 10 (numbers from memory.)

[bootless]

Avoid clichés like the plague, I always say. :-)

[IronJack]

Probably the ultimate cliche being perpetuated today is the statement that "America's strength is in diversity." Aside from the fact that that banal slogan is used to cloak the most appalling examples of minority tyranny, it is a patent lie. It is axiomatic that there is more strength in unity than in difference. That's why ants accomplish more than grasshoppers.

[LibWhacker]

See also: Giving Cliches Short Shrift

[BlazingArizona]

Avoid cliches like the plague!

[agrandis]

Cliches are dangerous, as are unnecessary contraction's.

[Revolting cat!]

If I were you I'd give heads up to the major FReepers around this neck of woods to get on board or they're gonna miss the boat!

[agrandis]

Why don't you let a sleeping dog lie. Or, "permit reposing canines to prevaricate."

[SerpentDove]

>> You can take that to the bank!<<

You can say that again!

[parsifal]

I agree. Too many cliches spoil the soup. parsy.

[The Brush]

I'm not worried about clichés that don't make real sense. The way I see it, it isn't lying if it's just about sex.

Can I get a witness?
Case CLOSED!

[Doomonyou]

All Your Cliche's Are Belong To Us!

[Revolting cat!]

Since the thread to which you linked appears deader than Jerry Garcia, I'll quote from the article there here:

"Writing well, or even acceptably, involves struggle more than axioms. Martin Amis called his recent collection of literary essays The War Against Cliché. To write, as he says, means campaigning against cliché: "Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart." This involves far more than taste. Clichés deaden prose but also deaden information, discussion, and the people who use them. They limit and enclose thought, forcing it down predetermined channels.

Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright and politician, put it beautifully: "The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defence lawyer, judge, and the law."