Catch Phrases

[Latoof]

What are the cathch phrases and how do they collected as I saw that they are collected from plays, movies and the daily life...
Thanks..

[blacknomi]

Hi, Latoof!

What are catch phrases?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_phrase

Believe it or not, a list!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_catch_phrases


Yours,
Tizzly

[Latoof]

Thanks Nomi...

But..

1. How do they get spread?

2. Should we learn them?

3. How can we apply a very specific dialogue to general situations?

I had one catch pharses dictionary and I was amazed with the sources of these pharses!! Sometimes it came from a yelling in the middle of a football match!!

Really enteresting!

[blacknomi]

Why do things spread? What is the medium?

Most languages are spoken languages. It's quite interesting that, among those spoken ones, some don't even have its written form. I think the reason catch phrases become popular is because of "us". People carry the virus walking around you. And, if we are vulnerable, we're prone to contract a phrase when exposing ourselves in a catch-phrase-rich environment.

What do you think, beautiful little Latoof?

[Latoof]