A hard truth some chronically online people need to hear: cliché is a noun. It is only a noun. It is never an adjective. The adjective form is clichéd. Clichéd is elegant.
“I could have sworn…”
No.
I think what’s happened here is people aren’t reading, and they’re also thinking cliché is like passé. But no. Never.
Other thoughts for Monday via the free Substack. Neil Young, Carl Sandburg, erasure poetry, and more. Not long. Hopefully not pedantic.
Chris Cocca 