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To: RoosterRedux
Probably better for clearer writing to not use them at all. Similar to what it says in The Elements of Style;

Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

3 posted on 12/05/2018 12:26:05 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Is i.e. a twenty-dollar word? Who’d a thunk it?


5 posted on 12/05/2018 12:29:20 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

Politicians talk in twenty dollar words, President Trumps prefers the ten centers that I can understand...

Just another reason why Trump differs from the typical politician......

35 posted on 12/05/2018 1:17:49 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Similar to caveats by Fowler. Who also says if you’re going to show off and use a foreign language, you’d better use it right.

Also, Anglo-Saxon words have more punch than latinate words. They have to be used by ear, but never, never change an Anglo-Saxon word to a latinate one without good reason.


82 posted on 12/05/2018 6:21:44 PM PST by firebrand
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