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April 28, 2004
WSJ: "Despite ... Well, Pretty Much Anything"
I was reading the Wall Street Journal's recent (good) special report on golf when I noticed something interesting about their list of recent reports. Just to be helpful, I have highlighted the pattern:
Being an editor of special reports at the Journal apparently requires an inexplicable fondness for having the word "despite" lead things off. While "despite" isn't quite as exhausted as the academic senior paper fave "notwithstanding", it is a tick away from being a tic, if you know what I mean.
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I always thought the most overly used statement during my college econ courses was "ceteris paribus".