Would you guys, like, take this outside? Eh?
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> On 01 Mar 2015, at 16:01, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hummm . . . cough! cough! . . . another itty bitty nit to pick: use of word
> “like” tells us that the word following is not included in the category,
> which in your case, “like ‘unique’”, it certainly is. In such constructions
> the correct phrase is “such as”, which includes the term or terms following.
> “Misuse of words such as ‘unique’ or ‘literally . . .” Clumsy sounding
> sometimes, and a bit snobby though, I’ll give it that. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:38 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> And misuse of words like ‘unique’ or ‘literally’ robs the language of powers
>> of expression. The more we abuse the language, its vocabulary and its
>> grammar, the less expressive it is possible to be – without having
>> constantly to explain your words. And superfluous explanation is what we
>> find people doing because the more words we lose to abuse, the more
>> ambiguous become those words.
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