CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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I would like to emphatically reiterate this inimicable observationBut let's put all our cards on the table here, it's tired-out, cliched, run-of-the-mill phrases that really get my goat.
On the whole, time and again, it seems joe public resorts to jumping on the bandwagon with the same pat, bog-standard verses rather than having a brief time out to weigh up the pros and cons of alternative phrasing.
Some may take it all with a pinch of salt, consider it a case of six to one and half a dozen of the other and think I should put up and shut up, but I'm of the opinion that, at the end of the day, it's well out of order.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:27,
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Avoid clicheslike the plague!
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:30,
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