"So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man in not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays." -Dead Poets Society
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
What Strunk and White Elements of Style forgot to mention
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life,
literature,
nonfiction,
wax poetic
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