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Audio Cliche Usage Guide

To help all those in need, I propose the Audiogon Audio Cliche Usage Guide.
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Audio Cliche #1 - "My lost is your gain". Correct usage, "My loss is your gain".

Lost means missing, or no longer possessed. If you still own the unit, then you still possess the unit, and it is not lost.

Loss refers to the decrease in the amount of money resulting from re-selling the item at a lower price on Audiogon.
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Audio Cliche #2 - "I sold all my gears." Correct usage, "I sold all my gear."

Gears refers to several multi-toothed wheels used in motors and machinery.

Gear is a collective term that means all the components that comprise a system...like an audio system.
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snofun3
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Never to forget "Power Chord" - hint guys - that's the way a Boston tune starts, it's not the thing you plug into the wall - that's a cord.

Then of course there's "look at my add" - guys, add is arithmetic, an ad, is what you put on AGon - you know - a contraction of advertisement.
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sfar
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"If your reading this ad you already know..."

Two problems:

Problem #1 - Minor. The word is "you're" (you are) not "your" (possessive). Considered a minor problem because we all make that mistake once in awhile.

Problem #2 - Major. The statement itself is absurd on its face. I personally have a minor obsession with reading ads about stuff I've never heard of. That gets complicated, as well, when the text of the ad reads something like, "The Sonic Frenzy LB-RF Mark IV is the last one you'll ever buy." Last what? Is it a power cord, a preamp, a volume knob demagnetizer? What?
mimberman
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Audio Cliche #3 - "I propose the Audiogon Audio Cliche Usage Guide". Correct usage, "I propose the Audiogon Audio Malapropism Usage Guide".

Cliche means a trite phrase or expression.

A Malapropism is the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
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Heh...not meant as an attack, just thought it was funny!
entrope
482 posts
 
Audio Cliche - "I listened to my entire CD collection over again when I got my new....."

Correct usage: We all know there are CD's in your collection that you will never play a second time regardless of how good your system sounds.

tvad OP
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03-02-06: Mimberman
Audio Cliche #3 - "I propose the Audiogon Audio Cliche Usage Guide". Correct usage, "I propose the Audiogon Audio Malapropism Usage Guide".
I like it!

However, perhaps these are really Malapropped cliches?

I would suggest the phrase, "My loss is your gain", is a cliche...an overused, or trite phrase. Therefore, "My lost is your gain", is a malaprop contained in a cliche...

Thanks everyone for taking this thread with the humor in which it was intended!

"Each new thread is better than the next". Which, of course means each successive thread is worse than the one before. A version of one of my favorite misused cliches of all time. "Each more beautiful than the last."
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