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I am busy drafting some copy and I am struggling with two words:

1. Passion
2. Conversation

Is it only me who thinks these two words are grossly overused and now fall within the ‘glib’ bracket?

I don’t want to use them as they convey a sense of false reality to me. The word ‘conversation’ has been a pillar of blogosphere’s Web 2.0 for so long now and jumps out everywhere and far too often is used out of context which I suppose has caused me to think it is time for the word to be rested.

I am also experiencing a great deal of resistance to using ‘passion’ or ‘passionate’.

A bit like an Anglo-Saxon expletive, the word is a shortcut to save further meaningful explanation about why you like, enjoy and excel at a certain thing.

For example, “I am passionate about Tiddlywinks”.

Nah, it doesn’t quite cut the ice for me! Apologies to Tiddlywinks officianados. I mean no offense, but I can’t feel it let alone imagine how one gets passionate about a game called Tiddlywinks.