Maybe you will throw tomatoes at me for this one, but I am wondering whether there are any Ripkanistas on this board who are nauseated by "QVC speak". I am not one who cares about which host is on w/ Judith, which models they use, whether a hostess's fake nails need touch-up, whether Judith had facial surgery or not, whether so-and-so's hair looked good or bad, etc. etc. etc. But the "QVC speak" grates on me like nails on a chalkboard - possibly because I used to be an English teacher. In particular, I am referring to the terms "price point" instead of "price", "colorway" instead of "color", & "fabrication" instead of "fabric"or "composition". A "fabrication" actually means "a lie". We add extra words or syllables to perfectly good words & distort their meaning or just add pomposity. And how 'bout that cliché that everyone keeps using & refuses to go away: "It is what it is." What does that mean????? How can it be anything else BUT what it is? Unless it is what it ain't, & that's my definition of a paradox!
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