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Hey Aqua! Unnecessary words

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    Seen on Twitter:

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    "(Also, why would you write "due to the impact of the global pandemic..." instead of "due to the global pandemic..." or even "due to the pandemic..." since we can reasonably be expected to understand which pandemic is being referred to?)"

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      As a mind reader who poses as a mere internet psychologist, I can tell you that the reason they wrote "impact of the global pandemic" rather than just "pandemic" is to lend the whole phrase more gravitas and appropriate just a little bit of it for themselves and how it is affecting their lives.

      Education is extremely important.

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        As a mind reader who poses as a mere internet psychologist, I can tell you that the reason they wrote "impact of the global pandemic" rather than just "pandemic" is to lend the whole phrase more gravitas and appropriate just a little bit of it for themselves and how it is affecting their lives.

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        @Horace said in Hey Aqua! Unnecessary words:

        As a mind reader who poses as a mere internet psychologist, I can tell you that the reason they wrote "impact of the global pandemic" rather than just "pandemic" is to lend the whole phrase more gravitas and appropriate just a little bit of it for themselves and how it is affecting their lives.

        I've spent many, many years working on shit like this for a job. Set your watch and warrant on it. It's how people who never developed their writing skills past 11th grade try to sound professional and important.

        That's not a dig, by the way. Most Americans stop learning how to draw around 6th grade. They stop learning how to write around their junior year of high school and oh by the way, the more your job aligns with STEM skills, the worse your writing skills likely are. You stop developing them sooner.

        Doctors are about the worst, both in terms of their shit-terrible writing skills and their inflated sense of skill in everything because they're doctors.

        Sorry, George, bach, et al.

        Please love yourself.

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