Timeline for A word/phrase for something that often comes up in conversations
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| Jun 12, 2023 at 23:45 | vote | accept | Sasan | ||
| Jun 12, 2023 at 22:17 | comment | added | Weather Vane | The tone and context of the supposed duplicate were quite different, so it's not a matter of adding more answers. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 16:58 | answer | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 15:24 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Edwin we disagree. You're not going to change my mind, and I'm not going to change yours. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 15:18 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Mari-Lou A I repeat, OP does not mention register as a problem, even though ‘hot topic’ and ‘talking point’ are discounted on semantic (rather than in one case informal) register grounds. And from ELU.Meta: << The Help Center article What does it mean if a question is "closed"? is a network-wide guide about the primary reasons questions should be closed. This generally happens when a question: is a duplicate of an existing question on the site ...>> It doesn't mention the case where someone wants essentially the same question re-visited and essentially resubmits as being an override. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 14:49 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | In an academic context, which this situation appears to suggest, those answers would not fit. This question is related but not a duplicate and this true because of the unique answers posted here. If there's one thing I know about academic writing that is to avoid slang and idioms because not every academician's first language is English. And I would add that alphabet's answer, which is original, would fit better in the older question precisely because it is an idiom. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 13:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Mari-Lou A '... was old hat' / 'was an old chestnut' / 'sounded like a broken record' obviously fit here. How can 'What's an idiom for something that you've heard many times?' not be a duplicate question? Do we ask a variant using slightly different wording if the answers already provided at a duplicate question aren't sufficient, or do we offer a bonus? | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 13:04 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @EdwinAshworth I'm happy to close questions as duplicates when I see the answers in the older questions apply. In this case, the old answers are inappropriate as can be seen by these rather unique answers, answers that do not replicate none of the older solutions, answers which are not duplicates of others as so very often happens. Tell me how the answers "clichéd" and "Nothing new under the sun“ can apply here? Yes, nothing prevents someone from posting more formal alternatives but they would be happier in this home. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 10:28 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 10:20 | history | edited | Greybeard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2023 at 9:46 | answer | added | Eilia | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 9:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Mari-Lou A The correct procedure is surely still to close here as a duplicate question. New answers are legitimate at the original, which does not bar formal expressions ... and OP here disallows 'hot topic' on the grounds of domain rather than register. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 6:33 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Ooh, I have a gold badge–forgot about that–which means my vote to reopen takes immediate effect. After looking at the answers in the older question, I believe they are inappropriate in a formal context. For example, “As I recall, that was an old chestnut”, works in a conversation but not in a report. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 6:29 | history | reopened | Mari-Lou A single-word-requests Users with the single-word-requests badge or a synonym can single-handedly close single-word-requests questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | ||
| Jun 10, 2023 at 18:13 | history | closed | Edwin Ashworth single-word-requests Users with the single-word-requests badge or a synonym can single-handedly close single-word-requests questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of What's an idiom for something that you've heard many times? | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 17:38 | answer | added | Weather Vane | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Jun 10, 2023 at 5:01 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 10, 2023 at 2:48 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Is there a word/phrase you’ve heard for this that you can't quite remember? Or are you looking for an original description? | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 0:51 | answer | added | LPH | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 22:20 | comment | added | Sasan | @StuartF But my context doesn’t involve discussion where there are sides to take. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 22:18 | comment | added | Sasan | @StuartF Yes, neutral. It can be any recurring topic. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 22:04 | comment | added | Stuart F | I actually think "hot topic" is fine; no evidence that it refers to political topics, although it can be topics that are disputed it isn't necessarily one there's an argument over, just one that's discussed. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 22:02 | comment | added | Graffito | How about "recurring topic" ? | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 22:01 | comment | added | Stuart F | Do you want something neutral? There are a lot of negative terms like platitude, commonplace, cliche, truism, familiar tune, same old song, for things that you don't like having endlessly repeated, but you want something that is OK to be repeated? | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 21:48 | answer | added | alphabet | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 21:11 | history | edited | Sasan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2023 at 21:05 | history | edited | Sasan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2023 at 20:59 | history | asked | Sasan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |