Hey, Americans ...

[blamebrampton]

Do you ever use forms of cliché other than plain old cliché? Such as clichéd or clichés? I see it used in a manner that I would consider wrong so often that I am wondering if it is one of those wacky idioms that English develops up all around the world. Or it could just be young people today with their emo music and Twittering ...

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

While gotten is ugly, it at least makes sense as it is a straight-up Old English construction (a fact I just checked in my OE text, which fell on my head as I tried to scoop it from the shelf: I suffer for my accuracy!) to use the -en suffix.

Losing the established s and d endings with cliche is much less easily understood, unless it is down to diction. Having spent a few minutes trying it out with bad fake American accents, I think you may well have nailed the reason.

Trite is subtly different, though in many cases superior for the specific meaning the writer is apparently aiming at.

AND my head hurts.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

And if i were to write beowulf 2 the monster's mother strikes back i might deploy it. Absent that...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Please do! Grendel's mother was far scarier.

I mind mistakes with logical reasons behind them far less than ones that stem from derangement.