Have you been noticing it? It seems that every author, journalist, pundit and commentator these days is juxtapositing things, as if to show off how they can use a five syllable word (with an X in it!). Two syllables will suffice. The word is CONTRAST. Excellent writing uses an economy of words. Great writing streamlines syllables. Let us remember high school English, when we learned to compare and contrast, and stop trying to sound brainy by wasting syllables on stupid words. Please?

I now await the comments comparing and contrasting "contrast" with "juxtaposit".

There’s a big difference between riding a coal train through Kansas and Nebraska and trying to write. Writing is a suspension of life. I believe that so-called writer’s block is something that any writer is going to experience every day, but in a minor way. You break through some kind of membrane, and then you go into another world.
--McPhee

It's Just TV.... but he makes good points. Lots of them.

If you go home with somebody,
and they don't have books,
don't fuck 'em!
--John Waters

http://www.netspeak.org/#page=home

This site gives you usage stats and completes phrases for you. Not sure how useful it will turn out to be but it's interesting on first look.