February 9, 2010Slogans, catch phrases and by-lines have sunny and dark sides

Filed under: This Week in the World by merylrunion |

Kathleen is one of my favorite commenters on my blog. Her recent post about Teacheable Moments gave me the opportunity to communicate what I see as the beauty and the bane of phrases and catch-phrases.

I invite you to read her comment and my entire response. Here’s an excerpt.

I think catch-phrases expand us when they express new ideas that are bigger than how we were thinking. We grow into them. But then we outgrow them. So if we keep using them, they hold us back.