Monday, June 18

Awful Cliches

Eager to preserve the English language against a rising tide of rhetorical and grammatical nonsense, the editors of the London Telegraph asked readers to compose a piece of prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible. The results would be hilarious if only they were not so evidently the currency of our everyday discourse.

2 comments:

  1. The examples are barely readable. At least they used whole words instead of lol, brb, g2g, and the rest of the lexicon of the txt msg gen.

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  2. My how far our language has fallen. And, the English, to boot!

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