'Perfect surge' of cliches mars 2007
A "surge" of overused words and phrases formed a "perfect storm" of "post-9/11" cliches in 2007, according to a US university's annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.
Contributors gave first prize to the phrase "a perfect storm," saying it was numbingly applied to virtually any notable coincidence.
"Webinar" made the list as a tiresome non-word combining web and seminar that a contributor said "belongs in the same school of non-thought that brought us e-anything and i-anything."
Similarly, the list-makers complained about the absurd comparisons commonly phrased "x is the new y," as in "(age) 70 is the new 50" or "chocolate is the new sex."
"Fallacy is the new truth," commented one contributor.
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