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  1. From an article: “[he] has two children, aged four and eight months, with his wife…”

    This is bad #phrasing, and minimally needs a "years" after "four", with a different choice of words even better. As it stands, it had me wondering how a couple could end up with only four months between the births of their two kids.

  2. From an article: “[he] has two children, aged four and eight months, with his wife…”

    This is bad #phrasing, and minimally needs a "years" after "four", with a different choice of words even better. As it stands, it had me wondering how a couple could end up with only four months between the births of their two kids.

  3. From a YouTube clip:

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

    #usage #vocabulary #phrasing

  4. From a YouTube clip:

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

    #usage #vocabulary #phrasing

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

    #phrasing

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

    #phrasing

  7. So the Boozer brothers do this commercial for the new Samsung phone but at one point they show the phone and one of the Boozer bros is evidently listening to a podcast that looks like it’s titled TWINKING and I am like

    What

    #marchmadness #advertising #commercial #phrasing

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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