Well, hate’s too strong of a word but, really?
“It’s all good.”
“No worries.”
Shaddap!
Well, hate’s too strong of a word but, really?
“It’s all good.”
“No worries.”
Shaddap!
You’re not from around these here parts are you?
I know, right?
Cliches are the hammers and nails of conversation. They keep everything together. You’ll just have to live with some, I’m afraid.
But she’s sitting in the next cubicle. I may have to detonate something.
I don’t think those are clichés, exactly. They’re phrases that have become particles, losing their semantic content to become cogs in the machinery of polite discourse. Functionally, they serve the same sort of role as phrases like “How are you?” and “My pleasure.”–not to convey literal meaning, but as markers that facilitate conversation. These have no doubt arisen because they convey a slightly different mood than older particles that are near equivalents (like “You’re welcome.”).
If you find these particular particles grating, I can hardly fault you, but it’s not because they’re clichés…which are often annoying for entirely different reasons.
At the end of the day, it’ll all come out in the wash. Be safe.
People who speak in clichés just aren’t thinking out of the box.
I used to use clichés left, right and centre, but I’ve taken the bull by the horns and now I avoid them like the plague.
It is what it is.
I had a dream once, after several conversations about my difficulty with small talk. In the dream people didn’t speak when they met. They rubbed shoulders (and upper arms) in passing, then turned and rubbed the opposite shoulders. I woke up in the middle of it with the conviction that small talk functioned like dogs sniffing each other’s butts. It wasn’t the words that were important, it was the familiar format that put people at ease. And being at ease was a good thing.
So when you hear cliches from the next cubicle, just imagine that she’s sniffing a dog’s butt.
Yeah thanks. And now I won’t be able to stop laughing at her.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I told you! She was fixing the hem of my shorts!
How many years before “fuck” in its many forms is regarded as nothing but a cliche’?
F is the one magical word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh7Iu76yUA
“Fuck” doesn’t seem the kind of word that’s likely to be a cliché. Can’t quite put my finger on what makes a cliché, Clichés seem to mainly be short sentences that express an idea in an often overly simplified way.
“Fuck” is usually quite good at expressing an emotion to an idea.
Gah! She just told me “it’s all good” again.
I suggest gasoline and a match.
Git R done
If “it’s all good” and “no worries” are cliches, then so are “it’s ok”, “no problem”, and “don’t worry”. So the only non-cliched response would be something like “What has recently transpired an/or been said does not cause distress to me or others.” However that response should not be repeated lest it become a cliche.
“It is a problem because ____________________.”
My counter-cliche.