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I have no use for the word, proverbial. I just finished reading a memoir (written by a distant relative) in which she used the word proverbial constantly. It was the proverbial this and the proverbial that.
The proverbial garbage? The proverbial car?
I think writers use the word, proverbial, as an excuse when they know their writing has too many cliches. Adding this unnecessary word makes the editor in me want to take a pen and cross it out, even if it is in a finished book. I'd rather read an unapologetic cliche.
Is there anyway we can contact the dictionary and just ban it?
The proverbial garbage? The proverbial car?
I think writers use the word, proverbial, as an excuse when they know their writing has too many cliches. Adding this unnecessary word makes the editor in me want to take a pen and cross it out, even if it is in a finished book. I'd rather read an unapologetic cliche.
Is there anyway we can contact the dictionary and just ban it?