My tired words, inevitably to be found in British literary criticism,
is that a give poem is allusive, oblique.
(Enoughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhh
hhh
h!)
Erminia
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tired words
> Dear Andrew
>
> My sister has a cat called 'serendipity' or
> 'seren' for short. My favourite tired word
> in Oz poetry is 'anti-pastoral'. Oh and then
> there's 'emerging' or 'emergent' (no offence
> intended to Deb Comerford).
>
> best
>
> Hugh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Tired words
>
>
> > Yep!
> >
> > 'Minutiae', 'tendril', 'shard' are definitely some for the least-wanted
> > list.
> >
> > On a similar topic, anyone else see that list of the Nation's
> > Favourite Words in (I think) The Express newspaper last week?
> > Survey of 15,000 people I believe . . . in first place was
> > 'serendipity'. Interesting that two made-up words (from the
> > Harry Potter series) also made it into the top 10 -- 'quiddich' (sp?)
> > and 'muggle'. I think 'onomatopoeia' made top 5.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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