And I’m not talking about “officer involved shooting” or language that would feature in a Citations Needed episode, I’m asking for niche. My example:
When you read a long form interview and the interviewer has to open the piece with describing them entering, what they ordered for lunch, etc in the most flowery language.
“Mr. Hex Bear greeted me with a comfortable yet quaint handshake. The disheveled, patchy beard paired with a stained hoody gave off the impression that he was a common man, but his lunch choice said the opposite. He ordered the Truffle Salad, a glass of 1989 Cabernet, and mentioned the chef by name, asked the waiter how his children were. From the moment Hex sat down, he never broke eye contact with me, but exuded a confidence that made it seem like he did this every day.”
This is a weird post and feel no need to respond.
If you’re writing a science article concerning a subject which you have not studied extensively, and a verbatim quote from a scientist is available, use it. Do not try to paraphrase it. You are not helping by trying to paraphrase it. The verbatim quote might be a style-guide violation because the vocabulary is too advanced, but the paraphrase will be inaccurate, and that’s worse.
scandal-gate
Find a new goddamn suffix already
For a brief while in the Obama administration scandal-ghazi did replace it.
Man during the election all the time they’d be having these random goobers on NPR programs just spouting off their dumbass opinions who they’re voting for and why like they’re doing something enlightened by wow listening to voices.
I already know exactly everything they could possibly say. “ya know um Biden represents a kind of um like a return to normalcy that like if- ya know the past 4 years there’s been so many um unprecitended things which um isn’t the normal way for democracy to run. I just think that if we were to have another 4 years of that kind of um…”
Nobody in the entire world needs to hear what these people think.
Evidence that they’ve all got the same word-a-day calendar. There was a weird trend a couple years ago where every time something happened it was a “sea change.” We started calling earthquakes “temblors” out of nowhere.
This is another one I had trouble describing in the main post. When they say a persons name in the first paragraph. But then they want to refer to that same person as the subject of the next sentence and replace their name with a lofty description of their accolades. Hard to find examples of but like:
“Congresswoman Hex Bear shocked the world with her reelection victory. The first ever elected Ursine from Ohio shared a brief statement last night over the results.”
