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    What is platitude?

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    0  Views: 776 Answers: 2 Posted: 13 years ago
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      A remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
      13 years ago. Rating: 1
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        basicdata

        Thank You,reading in my new place no dictionary handy but ask a question was, so this is what I read: Where in this small-talking world can I find a longitude with no platitude?-Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning
        commented 13 years ago
        Isn't that called latitude or the parallels they girdle the globe from Equator to the poles in rings. The meridians of longitude go the other way, they loop North to South in great circles.
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          nlnnet

          It was a play on words - the humor stems from replacing latitude with platitude!
          commented 13 years ago


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