My sister posted to Facebook an article about the 15 words to
eliminate from your vocabulary to sound smarter (Jennie
Haskamp, The Daily Muse May 4,
2015, 5:30 PM).
Now that was a challenge I didn’t even try and resist:
I really honestly think that maybe one should never
literally
nor absolutely
just
say amazing
stuff irregardless how things went. It will always
be very dumb.
Using these bold and italicized words means that this blog is
definitely not eligible for the annals of “smart” and thus I shall try to
eliminate them from my sentences forever (if I slip, forgive me, sometimes one
needn’t always sound smart).
This in turn reminds me of another sentence:
« So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections
of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with ». -John Locke,
philosopher (1632-1704)
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