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"I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' it-self, down through the generations, westward the wagons, across the sands a time until-- aw, look at me, I'm ramblin' again. Wel, uh hope you folks enjoyed yourselves."
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- Justin
- I am the husband of one wife (Dr Laurel), and the father of three kids. ('The Little Man' and 'The Little Lady', and 'Junior'). I am an Anglican minister in downtown Sydney. Although I recently served in New York City. (Hence moffattnyc)
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14 comments:
tolerance
i add 'equipped'
Some of them are just on the list because they annoy me.
helpful
how about the word 'blacklist'? ;-)
Yeah. I'm all for blacklisting "blacklist"...
But at least its succinct and functional while the others all have either more simple roots or have suffered overuse (and most of them by me - professionally).
They're words I've caught myself overusing in media releases (the ones that aren't there simply because they annoy me).
I will add suggestions posted here to the list.
legalism
I was ‘literally’ thinking of doing this the other day, but I was finding it hard to ‘identify’ which words to block. I tried to ‘utilise’ google to help me, but this was not a ‘sustainable’ solution. I guess the only other option was for me to ‘showcase’ the ideas, but now you have put it in your blog as a question. Thanks, I think I will just ‘utilise the feedback from here. =))
Thought of a couple more:
awesome
encouraging
Most of the adverbs/adjectives should go--especially "ultimately" and "so".
Overuse of the passive voice is a big no no.
Plagiarising the phraseology of the Bible is another (e.g. "For ...", "it itself" [reflexive pronouns], "how much more", "more than that" [the last one tops my blacklist]).
May I add some phrases? I cannot bear 'at the end of the day', 'when all is said and done'and 'No offense, but...'.
-> "Sound"
when referring to a person rather than an idea.
It's a bit too on or off for my liking... a bit OT prophet to either blindly follow or stone 'em as heresy personified.
-> "actual" and "you know" (maybe these are just a UK writing tick though!)
-> has someone said "literally" ?
I have to say though that we only really have a right to talk to ourselves as bloggers here... when you enter someone else's blog it's a bit like entering their house, finding the good or critiquing content rather than nitpicking style should be the order of the day, no?
Having said that, I am taking careful note of all we've said to attempt to minimise my communication misdemeanours!
'I take it that...' and 'strategic'
"postmodern"
Few people know what it really means and in what context it can be correctly used... thereby giving it no meaning at all in the popular mind.
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