Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Extreme Linguistics. The Banished Words List for 2003. My personal favorite overused redundancy is "at this particular moment in time", which is what ordinary people always say when a reporter sticks a mike in their face. We have an English word which says all that in one syllable, three letters - "now". If one needs to be emphatic, "right now" works fine.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment