Snowclones are adaptable templates for clich\u00e9s popular with journalists and writers. For example, X is the new Y, A doesn’t know the meaning of B, and C is D’s middle name. Just replace the letters with words and you have a clich\u00e9 you can use in quite a wide range of circumstances.<\/p>\n
Wikipedia defines a snowclone as: “a neologism used to describe a type of formula-based clich\u00e9 which uses an old idiom in a new context”<\/p>\n
Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n
grey is the new black
\ncoders are from Mars, designers are from Venus
\nthe only good language is a dead language
\nthe care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines
\nthe internet is the best thing since sliced bread
\nthe word surrender is not in my dictionary<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere are many more templates on Answers.com<\/a><\/p>\n
The term snowclone was coined by Glen Whitman<\/a>, an Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge, on 15th January 2004. There’s more discussion of this topic on Language Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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