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Platitudes.
A couple of days ago, I saw some ridiculous photo on Facebook of a work team that looked something like this:
Now of course, that’s a stock photo that I stole from Google. It’s not the actual work team in question — although wouldn’t it be glorious if it was?
I scrolled quickly through the comments on this particular photo, and they were all of this variety:
“Best team in the biz!”
“Most creative group of individuals ever!”
“Making magic!”
I was a little bit confused. This was just a shot of a bunch of co-workers, presumably from a holiday party. Was this really the best team in whatever business they do? Was it the most creative gathering of individuals ever? Were they truly making magic? All of that seemed kinda far-fetched. They were eating cookies and cake and smiling together. But yet — that was everybody’s comment!
So I came to two conclusions: (a) this team must be bad-ass in some way and (b) I need to research platitudes a bit more.
Here’s how dictionary.com gets at platitude:
a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were freshor profound.
