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Obama signs legislation that limits GOP/Conservative fun
On 10/30/09 9:57 AM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:05:26 -0500, wrote: You just don't know how to enjoy yourself, Harry, do you? No, I don't use a thesaurus, and I'm being completely honest. I don't have to. And any journeyed student of English would be able to tell immediately if a person is using a thesaurus since in such cases the words chosen will often be chosen awkwardly and will not play well in the sentence. Your "suspicion" denotes angst more than it speaks to your immaculate credentials. You might find a thesaurus handy. I'd prefer that you use scissors. But perhaps I should elucidate this in a different manner more fitting to the audience. The employment of a thesaurus can obfuscate or clarify the flights of fancy a overly self-indulgent mind often takes in composing prose - or poetry. If the thesaurus is retrieved in a deliberate and thoughtful manner - which is quite appropriate and fitting given the other requirements of writing useful prose - that action may at least give one pause to consider if what is being said is more important than how it is being said. In other words - will anybody want to wade through this? That pause and added thought can be productive if it serves to improve the result. But usually only if the thesaurus is put back on the bookshelf. Of course if the pause is simply used to pore through the thesaurus for more words to use, those words may be, as you say, inserted awkwardly - or perhaps misapplied to a picture only one can see. Which could well be an improvement to the writer's eye, though instilling a more pyrrhic aspect to the work, since the result is usually that even fewer will read it, and thus the war is lost. Bottom line, proper use of the thesaurus is tricky. Hey, that's why scissors are better. --Vic :) Our boy jpj likes to torture English. |
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