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In my opinion it’s detrimental to have people in your life that listen.

 

That was it...o_O

 

Share some of your favorites if so inclined.

 

What word should he have used?

 

essential?

fundamental?

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In my opinion it’s detrimental to have people in your life that listen.

 

That was it...o_O

 

Share some of your favorites if so inclined.

 

 

Its just to show how clever he is - sort of like Dorothy Parker

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I think he was going for “instrumental.”

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Or maybe he did mean detrimental. I’ve had a few sour escort experiences because I’ve taken too big an interest in what I was hearing instead of the body and dick in front of me. Lol.

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I remember E. B. White cautioning against using “big words” when a more common one will do just fine.

The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, the best book ever written on literary composition.

 

4. Avoid fancy words. Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able. Anglo-Saxon is a livelier tongue than Latin, so use Anglo-Saxon words. (Page 73)

 

Download your own copy in PDF form:

 

http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf

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