What is This Thing Supposed to Mean?
Little Helpers: Overused Words
Terry Shames here, with her guilty "secret words."
I suspect that everyone overuses words as much as I do, but I’ve often been curious if it’s the same words. Here are the words I have to look out for:
AboutJust (and sometimes it’s just about)I thinkDecidedA bitThe thing
The thing I notice about all these words is that they are hesitation words. Of course they have their uses in certain cases, but most of the time when I take them out, it makes the sentence stronge...
Terry Shames here, with her guilty "secret words."
I suspect that everyone overuses words as much as I do, but I’ve often been curious if it’s the same words. Here are the words I have to look out for:
AboutJust (and sometimes it’s just about)I thinkDecidedA bitThe thing
The thing I notice about all these words is that they are hesitation words. Of course they have their uses in certain cases, but most of the time when I take them out, it makes the sentence stronge...
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