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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.
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I think that big business took all the joy out of the word passion when they realised that industry was without love. And then when they cottoned on to conversation that to lost much of it’s mojo. Oh well. There’s always Tiddlywinks.
Cool blog.
Mandy,
You are so right . Management got the buzzword bingo going into overdrive.
The words don’t drive themselves into our concience which then are adopted into our vocabulary. We helped. Yes, I too used the words.
Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is soon to become an irritant to me! As is social-media and social-network.
R
Where have you been, Rob? And ja. We’re lazy with words. But then again. We’re lazy with life too, sometimes.
I have said that blogging is a fad. I have said that Twiter is a fad. I have said that facebook is a fad. Ihave said that social networking is a fad.
Did I say that blogging is a bore?
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