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Month: May 2016

  • One Word: Jocular

    One Word: Jocular

    Are you ever jocular in your use of words? Well, you are, if you ever speak in a joking, humorous, playful manner. Till recently, I divided words and their usages into two categories: formal and colloquial. Formal speech follows the strictest rules and conventions. It’s conservative, prim, and proper. Colloquial speech is more relaxed. It’s…

  • Two Words: Prescriptive & Descriptive

    Two Words: Prescriptive & Descriptive

    In choosing your words, are you prescriptive or descriptive? There’s nothing necessarily wrong with either one. But you’ll choose words more effectively if you know which approach you’re favoring. More precisely, you should know where you fall along the spectrum between these two extremes. Because these really are opposite ends of a continuum. Here’s the…

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