The name Twitch is drawn from gamer phraseology – which says everything about its specific appeal.
His words elide seamlessly from biblical phraseology to 20th-century banality: "The man under his fig tree telephoned the man under his vine".
The phrase "radical Left" doesn't appear in Damore's memo, but the title, "Google's ideological echo chamber," borrows from the phraseology of the alt-right free-speech movement, which conflates legitimate consequences for speech (like losing your job) with an infringement on the first amendment.
We kept our lingo simple: you tend to keep well away from conventional religious phraseology for fear of causing offence.
Borrowing phraseology from, of all poets, David Letterman, he swipes at the use of jokes in other poet-critics' essays as "stupid reviewing tricks" and then makes some really lame ones himself: he shuts down writers of confessional poetry like so many hecklers, sneering at their "contemporary mush of me, me, me".
It is not circular or cyclical; it is moving toward a goal; moving, in Jewish and Christian phraseology, from this age to the age to come.
And this is not the only time; The Islam Versus Europe blog "cites 15 examples of duplications in phraseology from the book which Joya published the same year in which Hari subsequently printed the interview".
Colleagues in the languages department might well despair at the thought of exam scripts peppered with inexplicable phraseology gathered from Google Translate.
By hanging around career politicians for most of his adult life, he realized that what he had learned from books is hollow phraseology; money and the power to play them count in real-life politics.
I recently wrote several pieces, here and here, about Angus Burgin's historical study (The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression) of the rise of the conservative, free-market, laissez-faire or neoliberal movement -- pick your phraseology -- from the '30s to the present, with Hayek and his book, The Road to Serfdom, at the center.
