Over-used "Cool" Words

FotF --

I, for one, always just assumes that means he's good at Ms. McGill's rooming house.

Drinking tea, etc.

 

"It is what it is" tops this list, but it's so overdone that it's probably well past "overdone cool phrase" territory and into "completely over cliche."

Funny, athleticism was bugging me the other day.

 

I pretty much agree with this list. Although I'm trying to think of another way to say "atheticism" or "athletic."

Not long ago, I described a player as a "human pogo stick of a center." Desk changed it to "athletic center." But ah well. It is what it is.

 

"Coach on the field" paints a picture "leader" by itself cannot, but "coach on the field" has been used so much, it has lost some of that impact. Best to show us how he's a coach on the field. If you can't do that, then he's probably not.

 

If you're like me, you watch Rachel Ray with the sound turned off.

I guess the writing device I dislike most it the period-after-every-word device to add emphasis: "End. Of. Thread."

I read somewhere that the writers of the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" decided they didn't want to copy anyone's slang, they wanted to create slang. So they came up with "Up your nose with a rubber hose." And it did enter the slang usage of that time. I think it would be cool to write a novel or a script in which a bunch of people talk in entirely created slang -- nothing borrowed from this or any other era, but dead-on enough so people of this or any other era could understand it through context.

 

Frank, wouldn't that book be titled "A Clockwork Orange"?

 

Is that what they did? I read the book when I was 14, I don't remember any of it.

 

Plus. One.

Totally. agree.

 

I had never seen that device in actual, god's honest news/sports writing before ... until I picked up this week's SI. Austin Murphy used it in his Mizzou story. It. Didn't. Work.

 

I. Like. It. Just. Kidding.

 

That's a good list. I'll add these two:
- (Team name) Nation.
- Walkoff homer (or single, double, triple).

 

He makes his teammates better