cataloging words and phrases that seem to pop up everywhere all of a sudden

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elegant eyes, aristocrat face, gorgeous hair (soref), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link

Our postgraduate offering is really good

"offering" i could live with but "offer" seems to be the preferred word of the evil

Noodzilla (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link

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you will...you will

it's the latest innovation that allows you to save crucial time and money by not having to say "our thing is not the correct size; we will change the size of the thing"

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link

eight years pass...

One construction I've noticed in different places is along the lines of "fascism happens slowly, then very fast" and "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly." Googling the bankruptcy variation, I was pointed to this exchange from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Anyway, I don't know that I'd ever heard this prior to a month ago. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the phrase recently becoming more popular, or is this more a case of me now knowing it and so seeing it everywhere.

peace, man, Monday, 21 November 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link


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