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  1. From a YouTube clip:

    Interviewer: Had you ever done that before?
    Actor: No, I just wung [sic] it.

    #usage #vocabulary #phrasing

  2. "No obligation with hasDischargeQuery found -- the system cannot witness its own discharge"

    #phrasing

  3. A quotation from Montaigne

    I only quote others the better to quote myself.
     
    [Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d’autant plus me dire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.26]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #clarity #expression #inspiration #phrasing #quotations #quoter #quoting #wording

  4. Weird #phrasing. I'm watching a YouTube video where the host has just said “Over a dozen and half Russian generals have been jailed.”

    Think about that. He means "nineteen", right? Otherwise he'd say "twenty" or "over twenty". So why didn't he say "almost twenty"? The phrasing he used seems awkward to me. #usage

  5. "whichever ad exec at #Geico came up with the #phrasing "up to 15% or more" needs some kind of award for concocting one of the most #meaningless strings of #words in the English #language. all it guarantees is that the number is either lower or higher than 15%, inclusive. up to 15%... or more. a bladeless knife with no handle."

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