Cultured Views

Okay, I have had enough.

There gets to a point where the use of a word can be flogged to death and in this case the word is….

STASI.

No matter where you look, or read, or whatever publication you are reading, there is that darned word staring out at you.

In fact, I have a small list of words which have had their day as far as ‘over usage’ is concerned. It seems people, especially the media, like to latch onto a fashionable term and use it to death. Well, I’ve had enough…here are some words which you will never see used on this site…

* Stasi - as mentioned. It is the ‘word of the moment’ in just about every news article. ‘Lunchbox stasi’ – ‘council stasi’ – ‘bin stasi’…PLEASE!

* Uber - thankfully not used as often as it was about two years ago, everything was so ‘uber’ it was ridiculous. ‘Uber rich’ – ‘uber smart’ – ‘uber model’…enough already!

and the word which I despise more than anything…

* Eclectic – I really hate this pretentious word and I blame the trendy arts community for it making its way into the general domain. For example, you could not listen to ABC ClassicFM in Australia at one stage without hearing this word being used to describe everything from a piece of music to someone’s choice of breakfast cereal. Unfortunately it is still hanging around – I would like to see a law against it.

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