It’s the holidays and we’re on vacation – so here’s a link to a great post on the history of punctuation.
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Thu 27 Nov 2008
The mysterious history of the question mark … and other tales of punctuation.
Posted by Mike Bawden under Uncategorized
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Tue 22 Aug 2006
At the end of the day, it’s all about the cliché
Posted by Mike Bawden under Much Ado About Marketing
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What’s the most annoying examples of corporate-speak that you run into on a daily basis? Fast Company’s blog tipped me off to a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the same subject.
Clichés are a short-handed form of communication – conveying entire concepts in a simple phrase or allusion. But when clichés get over-used, well, let’s just say they can “re-align someone’s paradigm faster than drinking from a firehose.”
My personal favorites:
- “touching base”
- “taking it to the next level”
- “when it’s all said and done”
- “at the end of the day”
- task, product or brand “champions”
- “speak to” a topic
- “liase with”
- “all things being equal”
- “drilling down”
- “silos”
- “learnings”
- “take aways”
Of course, most people use clichés to sound smart. Now you can sound smart with even less thought by clicking here.
The moral to this whole, sordid tale: “Avoid clichés like the plague.”
What are your most dreaded clichés?
