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December 18, 2006

More on bad lingo: Gawker has a list of Blog-Media clichés:
When you make words for a living, you will inevitably find yourself drawn into certain ruts of repetition. That's why you'll see the same tired clichés popping up in the same media outlets, or often in the writing produced by the same people. Blogs are no different, and are in fact worse -- the increased breadth and depth of volume encourages mass overuse of an even longer list of lazy jokes, references, and turns of phrase.
The annotated list includes some of my pet peeves (and personal weaknesses): "[x] is the new [y]", "[purposefully non-ghetto statement], yo", and "I'm looking at you, [example of complaint]."

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