'Body parts': A phrase I have come to hate


It
occurred to me that the characteristic phrase of our time may be "body parts."
Journalists just love to use it, most often I think in reporting on car bomb
explosions. That strikes me as lazy -- why not say "arms, legs, heads, jawbones,
and so on"? (Unless, of course, you can't tell what they are.)

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Published on May 13, 2013 07:21
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