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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 ...

Date: 2009-06-14 12:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mific.livejournal.com
Dangerous to get us going on a grammar thread, as evidenced above!
Clichés and clichéd for me.
The other thing I frequently have to grit my teeth and bear is disinterested used to mean uninterested.
But again, I found a grammar-nerds site which in the end concluded that that battle was lost, in the New World anyway. Which is actually a supermarket chain here.
I'm a hold-out though - I refuse to use disinterested for not interested - and it's not just because my false teeth make the sibilants harder to say these days. ;)

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