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At almost 8 years old, my daughter had the hardest time repelling that ineffective phrase: "It's the taking part that counts".
They make infinitely more money than your average person will in dozens of lifetimes yet spend many resources to avoid their fair share of tax – to "protect themselves from ineffective bureaucracy", and other elitist phrases.
Whether you're hearing these phrases or saying them, they're all signs of ineffective listening.
Annoying phrases like the nine identified in Adobe's recent survey are ineffective.
It's because these phrases are so generic and over-used that they've become ineffective.
A phrase is a cliche, on the other hand, if in usage it is overused and ineffective.
And ineffective?
(My phrasing).
It's ineffective.
Biblical phrasing?
Awkward phrasing.
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