Guilty as charged, to use another one. You have given me a new goal — to eliminate or at least minimize my use of clichés. I will start with my writing and hope it spreads to my conversation.
Nice. A word which, when used to describe a person as a former friend used to say, denotes vastly underrated. Applies as well to your essay. Made me smile. Thanks.
This was an immensely enjoyable essay. I wrote "immensely" not because it was long or used large words, but because it provided me not only with joy, but with an immense amount of joy. It rendered me immensely gay, not Gay like in homosexual, but the older use of gay, such as happy.
Not mentioned in this essay, probably because to do so would have increased its length and made it immense, is the overuse of the word "love, " especially in music and poetry. Nothing wrong with using "like," an underused verb which conveys much. For example, in the song lyrics "I will always love you," change to "I will always like you," and picture Whitney Houston belting it out. It's all in the voice and passion with which sung. "I will always like you." Or Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Shall I Love You, Let me Count the Ways." Why not, "How Shall I Like You, Let me Count the Ways."
So many ways to like a person, so many more ways that loving a person.
Guilty as charged, to use another one. You have given me a new goal — to eliminate or at least minimize my use of clichés. I will start with my writing and hope it spreads to my conversation.
Nice. A word which, when used to describe a person as a former friend used to say, denotes vastly underrated. Applies as well to your essay. Made me smile. Thanks.
Touche Mon Amie .( Dose it matter if its in another language ? )
thanks for this dose of both humor and insight
Brilliantly written. Wickedly delivered. Delightfully executed.
This was an immensely enjoyable essay. I wrote "immensely" not because it was long or used large words, but because it provided me not only with joy, but with an immense amount of joy. It rendered me immensely gay, not Gay like in homosexual, but the older use of gay, such as happy.
Not mentioned in this essay, probably because to do so would have increased its length and made it immense, is the overuse of the word "love, " especially in music and poetry. Nothing wrong with using "like," an underused verb which conveys much. For example, in the song lyrics "I will always love you," change to "I will always like you," and picture Whitney Houston belting it out. It's all in the voice and passion with which sung. "I will always like you." Or Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Shall I Love You, Let me Count the Ways." Why not, "How Shall I Like You, Let me Count the Ways."
So many ways to like a person, so many more ways that loving a person.