问候卡上的套话：话虽空，意却深
作者：By Daniel Fraser
来源：《英语学习》2018年第07期
        Cliché is the nemesis1 of creativity. This statement pervades2 contemporary attitudes to language， both in the field of literature and in conventional human interactions. Across the landscape of the written word， clichéis continually depicted as an abject3 failure of language. This failure is demonised as obfuscating true expression， offering little more than banal sentimentality，4 and to be avoided at all costs.
        As a method of communication，characterise the giving of greeting cards stands in stark contrast to this phobic attitude to cliché， and functions in a manner that throws many of the problems of this phobia into sharp relief.5 Cliché is the life-blood of greeting cards， they thrive on it. Their messages are ones that have been used and discarded over and over again：

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