Tag: words
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The Most Dangerous Words
The most dangerous words are the ones that you think you understand. This is a trap of old books, where familiar words often hold strange meanings.
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Redundant Redundancies
Today’s topic is redundant phrases. We have all had it drilled into us that redundancy is bad and clean, effective communication excises the pointless. We also have ingrained into us our civilization’s stock of well-worn and oft-used expressions, which did not undergo a strict vetting by licensed grammarians and therefore contains redundancies. Like Orwell’s animals,…