{"id":106,"date":"2004-03-13T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T23:42:13","slug":"a-plea-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/03\/13\/a-plea-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A plea from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Stough included the following in his latest BONG Bull:<\/a><\/p>\n

URGENT APPEAL. A Canadian hack who avoids hackneyed words and phrases like the plague (his own description) asks, “How about an appeal in a future BONG bulletin for a moratorium — no, make that a total cessation — on the use of overworked words in print?<\/p>\n

“What happened on Sept. 11, 2001 was ‘horrific<\/strong>.’ A car crash on a highway, however, sad that it takes three or four young lives, does not
\ncompare with 9\/11 in enormity but it seems ‘horrific’ has become the buzz word used by hacks to describe any tragedy beyond an ordinary event involving death or destruction.<\/p>\n

“Icon<\/strong>: What did we use before we had this one? How often is it used in its proper meaning?<\/p>\n

“And, one we see a lot: Coffers<\/strong>. Isn’t a word which used to describe containers for holding money in bygone years a bit antiquated in this
\nday of accounting by computer and instantaneous transfer of sums around the universe?<\/p>\n

“I’m sure you and your many devoted readers can come up with many more words and phrases currently being grossly overworked and\/or beaten to death on the pages of newspapers today — not to mention the electronic media.”<\/p>\n

Yes of course, whatever we can do to ease the burden of our Canadian hack brethren. We never hear the word “hustings<\/strong>” until election time, when it becomes an instant cliche. “Warchest<\/strong>” is another of the same ilk, and we don’t mean warch, warcher, warchest. Who whistles at a<\/p>\n

“whistle-stop<\/strong>?” And when was the last real stump seen at a “stump <\/strong><\/p>\n

speech<\/strong>?” Would the Secret Service let a candidate even climb onto a stump, and risk being nipped by a termite?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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