There are some catch phrases that start out cute and you're like, "That's so funny. I LOVE that expression. Say it again. More, more!" Until everyone jumps on the bandwagon and suddenly you're like, "Lop off my ears with a butter knife if you must, but please make it stop!"
I'm not talking about grammar gaffes like, "I seen it on the T.V." or "That's what youse guys said, supposebly." Those are unfortunate linguistic errors that don't warrant mockery. That would just be mean.
I'm certainly not a cunning linguist (as my friend Sharon would say). I write "LOL" too much and have a worrisome emoticon addiction. I also pun more than a person probably should. But I like to think I make good choices in the catch phrases I choose to add to my vocabulary.
One phrase in particular that bothers me right now is... "Wine-o-clock." First off, it sounds like "Wino Clock" which says a lot. This expression implies that we're all counting down the minutes until we can greedily grasp a bottle of chardonnay and chug it post haste.
But the expression that bugs me the most is the cutsie, "Mommy Juice." First of all. Eww. Eww as in the way "Ethnic Juices" makes me shudder.
But also eww as in, wine is something we need to dull the pain of parenting. Parenting has its challenges, but really? Do mums need to be sucking back wine 24/7 to get through it? Ugh.
It's not that I don't drink. I do. In fact, I may have recently discovered the simplistic joy of adding wine to my weekly grocery delivery. Just click, open door, clink. It's easy. Almost tooooooo easy. So I'm not judging. If I were to judge I might tense up and clench and possibly flinch and in doing so, spill my drink. So no judgment here.
"Mommy Juice" just sounds gross to me. Sorry. And this is coming from somebody who generally rages against the plague of political over-correctness.
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