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I guess I need to brush up more frequently on talking-head jargon.<\/p>\n

I’ll admit, for starters, that I do watch a lot of news and commentary during the day. Retirement has freed me up to do these things. Thus, I hear a lot of contemporary jargon flying out of the mouths of pundits\/contributors\/commentators.<\/p>\n

You’ve all heard ’em: Kick the can down the road; at the end of the day; all that being said; boots on the ground; going forward<\/em> … blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Here’s a new one that well might replace “at the end of the day” as my least favorite, most annoying clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n

“Full stop.”<\/p>\n

What the hell?<\/p>\n

I think I first heard that term used in a “Star Trek” movie. Capt. Kirk ordered the Starship Enterprise to come to a “full stop.” My response then was to giggle a bit. “Full stop? Does that mean something other than simply ‘stop’?”<\/p>\n

Now it’s taking its place in geopolitical discussion. The chattering class in Washington is now using “full stop,” I reckon, to emphasize that their disagreement with a public policy issue.<\/p>\n

“That issue just won’t resonate with the American people. Full stop<\/em>.” Is that how they use it?<\/p>\n

I’ll continue to watch the news, absorb what the talking heads are telling me. I just will have to ignore one more annoying clich\u00e9 as I listen to the “experts” offer their take on the day’s prevailing issue.<\/p>\n

Maybe I just am getting more curmudgeonly.<\/p>\n

I’ll make a vow never to use any of those clich\u00e9s in this blog. I’ll refer instead to what the United Press International style guide said about them: Avoid them like the plague.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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I guess I need to brush up more frequently on talking-head jargon. I’ll admit, for starters, that I do watch a lot of news and commentary during the day. Retirement has freed me up to do these things. Thus, I hear a lot of contemporary jargon flying out of the mouths of pundits\/contributors\/commentators. You’ve all … Continue reading What’s with this new talking-head cliche, ‘full stop’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7262,2978,7263,7264],"class_list":["post-24083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cliche","tag-media","tag-talking-heads","tag-upi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24086,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions\/24086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}