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  1. #GUMmyStuff #WritingStyle

    The incautious reader might well think that all of those things went into the bag with the pork. But let's say (because I know what I mean to say, here) that those are served with the pork.

    "Ingredients include a cup of rice, a handful of beans and a marinated pork roast that's sat for at least 24 hours in a plastic bag with orange juice."

    The only things in that bag are the pork and the juice. (That's a very sad marinade indeed.)

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  2. #GUMmyStuff #WritingStyle

    The incautious reader might well think that all of those things went into the bag with the pork. But let's say (because I know what I mean to say, here) that those are served with the pork.

    "Ingredients include a cup of rice, a handful of beans and a marinated pork roast that's sat for at least 24 hours in a plastic bag with orange juice."

    The only things in that bag are the pork and the juice. (That's a very sad marinade indeed.)

    2/2

  3. #GUMmyStuff #WritingStyle

    The incautious reader might well think that all of those things went into the bag with the pork. But let's say (because I know what I mean to say, here) that those are served with the pork.

    "Ingredients include a cup of rice, a handful of beans and a marinated pork roast that's sat for at least 24 hours in a plastic bag with orange juice."

    The only things in that bag are the pork and the juice. (That's a very sad marinade indeed.)

    2/2

  4. #GUMmyStuff #WritingStyle

    The incautious reader might well think that all of those things went into the bag with the pork. But let's say (because I know what I mean to say, here) that those are served with the pork.

    "Ingredients include a cup of rice, a handful of beans and a marinated pork roast that's sat for at least 24 hours in a plastic bag with orange juice."

    The only things in that bag are the pork and the juice. (That's a very sad marinade indeed.)

    2/2

  5. Love turning "sensory deprivation" into a verb

    "Sensory-deprivate" (as done with the Estes method in paranormal investigation: "when you sensory-deprivate yourself")

    #LivingLanguage
    #GUMmyStuff
    #Linguistics

  6. "Add into" drives me around the bend.

    You're adding something to something. If you're putting it in a bowl or a pan, you're adding it to the pan. You don't "add in/into." If you're adding it to a curriculum, you add it to that.

    You ADD TO.

    ::flails::

    #GUMmyStuff #AmEditing #PhrasalVerbs