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Old March 31st, 2005, 04:34 PM

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Default Re: OT: Qualifying Absolutes

Yeah, absolutely bad english. It's fun to do but as strunk and white say:

"Avoid the use of qualifiers. Rather, very, little, pretty—these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then."
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I rather pretty much love that quote a little bit.

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