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and gathering swallows X in the skies

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Banker who mixes up grammar always saying he works for Goods Fargo

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Using “sunset boulevard” as a euphemism for destroying a road

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Well it looks like I’m going to See Everything tonight…

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@WB_Baskerville

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Nice pox you’ve got there… would be a shame if it were on your house

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@wokus_dei1 When you check her phone and she’s in love with the Beautiful itself

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@franzsherbert I’ve heard that too, that’s funny though because it’s another case where reading the text in isolation would be very misleading (finding out later who “Mme Swann” is is like the punchline to that whole section)

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@franzsherbert Also it’s impossible to really appreciate the moments of sublimity and the recovery of memory without the extreme dilation. It’s required for the effect.

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@franzsherbert So I am 100% on team “read the whole thing”

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Like all conventional writing advice this is only helpful for low-level students and bad if codified as a rule. There are plenty of good reasons you might prefer to use the longer, fancier word in a given context: for rhythm, register, phonetic texture, etc.

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

David Foster Wallace discusses Pretentious Language

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Lindsey Graham gay? Who’s next, Liberace?

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Pronouncing “performative” like recitative

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The plan? Sell sea shells in the one place you can get them for free

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@bilbosfootcomb It’s not the lack of crust that bothers me. It’s the assertion of impossibility, as if merely to conceive it were to brand me as fool.

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(extending hand) Charmed, I’m epistemically warranted

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I know it’s trite to complain about the “For You Page” but it’d be nice if just once it actually gave you a personal errand boy

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Chicken Soup for the Mouth

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Make a book title edible:

In Search of Lost Thyme