{"id":9781,"date":"2017-06-25T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/quote-of-week-plus-some-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:37:49","slug":"quote-of-week-plus-some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/quote-of-week-plus-some-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the week (plus some thoughts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u201cSo avoid using the word \u2018very\u2019 because it\u2019s lazy. A man is not very
\ntired, he is exhausted. Don\u2019t use very sad, use morose. Language was
\ninvented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor,
\nlaziness will not do. It also won\u2019t do in your essays.\u201d
\n <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\n\u2015
\n N.H. Kleinbaum<\/a>,
\n
\n Dead Poets Society<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAs someone who loves language and words and even gets to make a living with them, I am always interested in learning something new about how to write and express myself better. The quote above is good advice, albeit somewhat old-fashioned and biased, but the basic point is well-taken (I hope): use your words with intention, particularly when writing, and try your best to make it interesting and fun for the recipients.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nDiana Urban<\/a> has posted about other overused words on her blog, and I can only recommend reading “43 Words You Should Cut From Your Writing Immediately<\/a>” to everyone wanting to improve his or her style.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAnd if you feel somewhat less creative, take a look at the cheat sheet over at SmartBlogger<\/a> offering 297 words and their better alternatives.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSo avoid using the word \u2018very\u2019 because it\u2019s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don\u2019t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won\u2019t do in your essays.\u201d \u2015 N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[393,90,394],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","tag-creative-writing","tag-english","tag-good-style","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10937,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/10937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}