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a penumbra of an aura of a . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2058, 7th September, 2011
Falsehood flows from abuse of language. Take, for example, the word ‘deserve’. It’s a darling of advertisers. Give your pet the nutrition it deserves. Give yourself the confidence you deserve (cosmetic surgery ad). Now, it is true that your pet needs nutrition. It may also be true that you very much want to look different. [...]
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something never to say

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2326, 31st August, 2011
Never say, ‘to be honest.’ You will not seem more honest. If it makes its host sentence seem trustworthy, it does so at a terrible price, for it tells everyone your word is generally untrustworthy. Or, to be more precise, it tells everyone that you suspect that they think you are untrustworthy. See how insecure [...]
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you have no excuse for poor vocab

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0041, 9th March, 2011
Do not whine about people who use words that you do not know, words that say things that are too hard to say using small words. If you are reading this, you can go online. If you can go online, you can go to Wiktionary. If you can go to Wiktionary, you can look up [...]
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fsi 2.1

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1523, 23rd March, 2010
(See 1.1 for an explanation) Related Posts:i need to type in hebrew.fsi unit 1.3fsi unit 1.2hebrew studies stuff (fsi unit 1.1)1 Chronicles 1:29 — Accents and Sentence Structure
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i hate not simply fitting into simple categories

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1403, 13th January, 2010
And when he attempted to speak in the Hebrew tongue unto them, they silenced him, that he might say nothing further, for he vocalized badly. – (not Acts 2:22) No.  I really don’t hate it.  It makes things more interesting.  What I’m referring to is John Hobbin’s recent suggestion that bibliobloggers be divided into categories [...]
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