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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Feb 6, 2023 0:52:10 GMT
medium.com/write-out-loud/the-46-most-overused-words-phrases-in-writing-in-2021-b3410f58bed2She's wrong that we are all guilty of it. I make sure I am not! And some of the alternative words she suggests don't mean the exact same thing. Not being exact can change the meaning if not the story. One handy trick is to not write as if you are writing, write as if you are speaking. The two are not always the same thing. Here's another view > cynthiadgriffin.com/2015/03/30/common-phrases-used-by-authors/Although when writing how the same characters speak in a story, people do talk like that! Same stock phrases etc. It may be boring, but often people are! I am glad she is not a great lover of Show don't tell, also. It's a principle that makes no sense. It derives from Show and Tell in schools. But note that principle also includes the word - Tell. Let's face it. People tell stories. Only graphic novels and comics show them Now here's an interesting thing >> myvocabulary.com/word-list/sci-fi-vocabulary/Any writer who needs that list, especially for Sci-Fi, should not be writing! You also have to wonder if the site knows what they are on about when some of the novels they list as Sci-Fi, are not ...
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Post by potet on Feb 6, 2023 12:17:31 GMT
The funny thing is that for linguists and language teachers the most frequently used words should be learned first because everybody understands them. Replacing them by less frequent ones is a matter of style.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Feb 6, 2023 17:14:21 GMT
True. When speaking most people don't use a large vocabulary.
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