Cliché

A cliché or cliche (/ˈkliːʃeɪ/ or /klɪˈʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

In phraseology, the term has taken on a more technical meaning, referring to an expression imposed by conventionalized linguistic usage. The term is frequently used in modern culture for an action or idea that is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Typically pejorative, "clichés" may or may not be true. Some are stereotypes, but some are simply truisms and facts. Clichés often are employed for comic effect, typically in fiction.

Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking, but have lost their force through overuse. The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience. Used sparingly, they may succeed, but the use of a cliché in writing, speech, or argument is generally considered a mark of inexperience or a lack of originality.

Cliché (Hush Hush) (album)

Cliché (Hush Hush) is the first reissue by Romanian singer-songwriter Alexandra Stan. It was released only to Japanese digital outlets on October 2, 2013, containing her worldwide-releases Lemonade, Cliche (Hush Hush) and All My People (vs. Manilla Maniacs). It serves to be the re-issue of her debut album Saxobeats (2011). An album's deluxe edition was just released as a compact disc and as digital download on October 23, 2013 in Japan, containing, among the original album's tracks, all the Saxobeats tracks and special remixes of them.

Background

The re-issue was released in Japan on October 10, 2013 under the title "Cliche (Hush Hush)" with three new tracks and four new remixes. The singles Lemonade, Cliche (Hush Hush) and All My People (vs. Manilla Maniacs) were already released worldwide to digital outlets in summer 2012 until early 2013, to promote the re-issue. Cliche (Hush Hush) is the only work that contains her three releases; worldwide, the singles were released as non-album singles. This is the ultimate album under the label of "Maan Studio". For the promotion, "All My People" had supported the football game between the Romanian football team and the Greek team, for the qualification to the FIFA World Coup 2013.

Cliché (Hush Hush) (song)

Cliche (Hush Hush) is a song by Romanian singer-songwriter Alexandra Stan from the reissue of her debut album Saxobeats, called Cliche (Hush Hush), which was released only to Japanese digital outlets in 2013. An acoustic version of the song was released to social medias in November 2013, as part of her reissue. The single had commercial success in Japan, where it reached the eleventh position in the Japanese Billboard Hot 100. Stan won a Japan Gold Disc Award in the category Best Newcomer in late 2013.

Music video

The official music video was filmed in the Maan Studios (Romania) by Iulian Moga (brother to Marius Moga) and was posted on YouTube on 27. September, where it already gained over 7.000.000 clicks. The video's first scene shows Alexandra Stan in sepia, being pictured by a male photographer, in a Cafė. After she's seducing him, she is leaving the bar. The thema is changing to colour, Stan's at a swimming-pool party, where she is dancing among other female and male dancers, wearing a dress made of mini-balloons. After she is seen shortly in a dark room with an old-fashioned TV, Alexandra is in a church, among male and female humans, that are wearing long and dark clothing, covering their complete body. Alexandra is also wearing the dark clothes, so only her red lips are seen. She might be the people's "queen". The people are then taking off clothes, wearing only lingerie. The male and female persons are then building love-couples, so they are hugging and kissing. At the end of the video, Alexandra is dating the photographer from the video's first scene. She's starting a fire, when she's letting candles fall over. Stan and the man are, in the video's last scene, dancing around it.

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Theodiscus

Theodiscus (the Latinised form of a Germanic word meaning "vernacular" or "of the common people") is a Medieval Latin adjective referring to the Germanic vernaculars of the Early Middle Ages. It is the precursor to a number of terms in West Germanic languages, namely the English exonym "Dutch", the German endonym "Deutsch", and the Dutch exonym "Duits".

The word theodism, a neologism for a branch of Germanic neopaganism, is based on the Old English form of the word.

Etymology

It is derived from Common Germanic *þiudiskaz. The stem of this word, *þeudō, meant "people" in Common Germanic, and *-iskaz was an adjective-forming suffix, of which -ish is the Modern English form. The Proto-Indo-European root *teutéh₂- ("tribe"), which is commonly reconstructed as the basis of the word, is related to Lithuanian tautà ("nation"), Old Irish túath ("tribe, people") and Oscan touto ("community"). The various Latin forms are derived from West Germanic *þiudisk and its later descendants.

The word came into Middle English as thede, but was extinct in Early Modern English (although surviving in the English place name Thetford, 'public ford'). It survives as the Icelandic word þjóð for "people, nation", the Norwegian (Nynorsk) word tjod for "people, nation", and the word for "German" in many European languages including German deutsch, Dutch Duits, Yiddish דײַטש daytsh, Danish tysk, Norwegian tysk, Swedish tyska, Spanish tudesco and Italian tedesco.

List of Black Lagoon characters

The following is a list of characters from the Japanese manga and anime Black Lagoon.

The Lagoon Company

The Lagoon Company is a mercenary/pirate group that is the main focus of the series. The Lagoon Company is for-hire service that is hired by various criminal organizations to do different jobs like locating and retrieving items and/or smuggling them.

Rokuro "Rock" Okajima

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Brad Swaile (English)

Rokuro Okajima (岡島緑郎, Okajima Rokurō), also known as Rock (ロック, Rokku), is the male protagonist of the series. He was a Japanese salaryman for Asahi Industries in Tokyo until he was taken hostage by the crew of the Black Lagoon during their raid on the ship he was on. He joined the Lagoon Company after his department chief Kageyama abandoned him (Kageyama declared him dead) in an attempt to cover up the smuggling operation in which Rock had been an unwitting participant. Rock is a humble and mild-mannered person despite being on the business end of guns from friend and foe alike, and often seems surprised at the barbarity of the Southeast Asian crime world. He still wears his tie, short-sleeved dress shirt, and dress pants because although now a pirate, he still retains his business persona. He prefers to use words over weapons when interacting with others. Rock, after joining the Lagoon company, has wondered if he is experiencing Stockholm syndrome.