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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 12:13:20 PM

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I had an English Professor in college who used to say; "why use a paragraph when a sentance will do?"

Maybe because the word limit was a minimum of 1000 words so I had to pad it out a bit.

Ron, "sentence" I don't have spellcheck.
I think she meant that people often times use too many words to convey a thought.
Like when someone uses two or three paragraphs to say something instead of a sentence or two.
But, it was a business school.

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 12:25:16 PM

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But I primarily teach professional writing.

That reminds me...I'm not going to any more writing clinics.

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 12:38:59 PM

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But I primarily teach professional writing.

That reminds me...I'm not going to any more writing clinics.

Yup. Why beat a dead horse? Put it on a bus. Preferably one of those boarded ones.

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 12:40:58 PM

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You say beat I say flog that’s call the whole thing off.

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 2:15:51 PM

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This thread reminds me of English class.

Nice thing about English, though--you use it every day...

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/19/2007 6:52:30 PM

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my alcohol soaked brain preceeds me, but there is a word that means exactly that; the closing of a speech ---starts with a p, I believe.....why not say it, if that is what it is?

In conclusion, and not a summation of my ideas; my favorite word is 'velleity' since I encounter it so often in media res.

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I love checking wikipedia for possible 'favorite' new words...did that a while back with 'sophistry' then over used that word for weeks afterward

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/20/2007 5:03:24 AM

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The word has reached me, so I must be dried out. I was going to use peroration instead of 'in closing', weaving it cleverly into a sentence, in such a way that you would just have to go ------ cute------, but it is raining, so fuck it, I took the bus.

Regarding an earlier comment by Tim;

I was unable to tell what the situation with the omnibus was, since the planking I was affixing to it was opaque and did not lend itself to assay any matters on the backside of same.

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RE: The Best and Worst of Words - 8/20/2007 10:37:47 AM

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peroration

peroration
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The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

[from the Devil's Dictionary]

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