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It's a terminal case

Oh no!  I suffer from all of these!  Fortunately (or not) I know I'm not alone.  In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I'm going to quote it whole:


Imprecision:  When writers just miss the target ground with their word using they on occasion elicit a type of sentence experiential feeling that creates a backtracking necessity.


From "Do you suffer from one of these Writing maladies?" by Nathan Bransford

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Published on August 10, 2010 13:13
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message 1: by Josh (new)
Aug 13, 2010 07:36AM

Josh *Splutter* I love that quote.


message 2: by Josh (new)
Aug 13, 2010 07:38AM

Josh Just read the article. The quote on "lyrical" is brilliant. And I fear one which I am prone to. *g*


message 3: by Alex (new)
Aug 13, 2010 08:04AM

Alex Josh wrote: "Just read the article. The quote on "lyrical" is brilliant. And I fear one which I am prone to. *g*"

LOL! Me too! And the Yoda effect, I do too. (Though I've cut down on that one recently :) ) In fact the only one I'm not horribly prone to is chattiness, as I save that for my blog posts ;)


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