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Is "+1" becoming an ASF cliche?
Is "+1" becoming an ASF cliche? Maybe it exists elsewhere.
+1 is everywhere.
pinkboy
... +1 a minor irritation but will work on surviving it.
+1 (just for muschuWell, there goes 80% of common English idiom. How long before all the new cliches become hated?:
Ahhh such is life. (Is that a cliche?)
(Wikipedia)"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The phrase is considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing," also known as purple prose
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents ”” except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness".
+1 (just for muschu)
It's pretty much a light hearted fun thread, isn't it? I guess cliches have become such because many of them do contain simple truths.
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