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Originally Posted by JPablo
Mmm... Thank you, but don't you mean, Modern as in from the 1600 on, right? You mean journalists of this 21st century, right?
Because Shakespeare uses things like,
"Eaten out of house and home"
"Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"
"He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual - and most of them are still in daily use.
And while "house and home" may be pretty close in meaning, they still have a slight difference... (I take one thing is play-writing and poetry... and another journalism...)
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I'm not having this
. The examples you quote are
not synonyms, so are completely different cases in which the two in juxtaposition work very well. Not only that, but there is a poetic issue as well.
house and home shades of meaning.
toil and trouble alliterative, poetic and not synonymous.
phrases and sayings these complement each other, because a phrase is not a saying, and a saying is not a phrase.
So yes, I mean 21st century journalists who have no sensitivity to the meanings of words.
