Our Dying Media-Based Cliches
Steve Rubel has posted an interesting series of images illustrating ten common phrases that are fading from use. Sayings such as “he sounds like a broken record”, and “she’s a walking encyclopedia” may have once been common cliches, but as the technology that they’re based on disappears from our life the phrases are left standing as a strange, antiquated cultural remnant.
See the rest of them here.
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Dan is an information omnivore, autodidact and creative generalist who has written for publications including the Huffington Post, Jaunted and Time/CNN. Dan has also provided commentary on trends for media outlets such as Wired and Parade magazine.
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| TAGS: | culture, Language, Media & Publishing, steve rubel |
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