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From: "Janice Siegel" <jfsiege@ilstu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Overused words 2002
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 13:30:14 -0600
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Thanks, Dan. Here is the one that caught my eye:

IT'S A GOOD THING -- "This phrase is 'ramped up' (banished in 2002) for
over-use," says Mark Dobias of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. "The question is:
good for whom? For example, insider trading may be a good thing, but only if
one does not get caught. Then it is a bad thing."

Sound familiar? Check out the sophists' credo:

So sickness is bad for the sick, but good for the doctor; death is bad for
the dead, but good for the undertakers and monumental masons; a good harvest
is good for the farmers but bad for the grain-traders; shipwrecks are bad
for the shipowners but good for the ship-builders; when iron is blunted and
worn away it is bad for others but good for the blacksmith; when pottery is
is broken it is bad for others but good for the potter; when shoes wear out
and fall to pieces it is bad for others but good for the cobbler; in
athletics victory in the quarter mile is good for the victor but bad for the
losers.
(Dissoi Logoi 1.3 - translation from The World of Athens, 292)

Oy. The parallels between fifth century Athens and US are getting scarier
and scarier. But knowledge is power, right?

Cheers and Happy New Year, Janice


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Tompkins" <pericles@temple.edu>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:06 AM
Subject: Overused words 2002


> Here is the URL for the annual list of overused words.  It includes at
least
> one phrase ('that said' -- a genitive absolute? -- that I'm partial to,
but
> such is life).  All in all, a useful piece:
>
> http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html
>
> Daniel P. Tompkins
> Director, Intellectual Heritage Program
> Temple University
> 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
> 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax)
> pericles@temple.edu
> Check our website:
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>
>
>
>

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