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Cheap chatter: Don’t use a new plastic word when an old wooden one will do

05.18.2022 by David Murray // 5 Comments

I once asked an artist friend: If she could simply make it so, would she eliminate artificial neon colors from the planet, for aesthetics’ sake? She hesitated just a moment before answering, “Yes.”

Those colors have their linguistic cousins, which mince in and slink out of favor, like Baskin-Robbins’ 33rd flavor.

Have you noticed that people don’t post on Facebook, “natch” very frequently anymore?

Also, they don’t say, “I’m just going to leave this right here.”

And I’m also not seeing a lot of … “This.”

Which gives me hope that at some point these terminal totes adorbists will stop saying, “Just sayin’.” And “Welp!” And “So, this happened.” And—great Scott, I caught myself writing this the other day—”Meh.”

#gagmewithaspoon

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  1. Gerry says

    May 18, 2022 at 10:20 am

    Or, “I was today years old when …. “

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  2. David Murray says

    May 18, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    Thank you, Gerry. Let’s collect these here, people, and then set them ablaze.

    Reply
  3. Jim Reische says

    May 18, 2022 at 9:49 pm

    You do you, Murray. You do you.

    Reply
  4. David Murray says

    May 18, 2022 at 9:50 pm

    I see what you did there, Reische. I see what you did there.

    Reply
  5. David Murray says

    May 31, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    Also: I’m not crying, you’re crying.

    Reply

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