Thread: Current Phrases You Can't Stand
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Old 01-29-2020, 07:48 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
Maybe.

But "new" words tend to get used when there is a need for them, a concept they serve to express that isn't expressed precisely enough by another word yet.
Absolutely, I agree 100%.

My "poison" was, of course, a feeble pun - I love punning on words that look the same in different languages but have very different meanings.
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