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Date Posted: 14:36:09 03/24/03 Mon
Author: Tilly
Subject: Re: A writing critique
In reply to: AW 's message, "Re: A writing critique" on 21:51:58 03/23/03 Sun

>>>And really, I should never have adviced her to get a
>>>thesarus. Double shame on me. Ugh.
>>
>>O_O Totally not. In fact I'd have to say that the
>>thesaurus is possibly the worst thing someone can do
>
>I don't agree. Sometimes a thesaurus is needed so a
>word doesn't get used too often, such as "said"
>"turned" or Oh... I don't know...

Absolutely not. "Said" is oen of those words that you stop seeing as you read it often enough. Save words like "snarled" and "snapped" and "whispered" for when that's exactly what's going on. And furthermore, if you need a thesaurus for words like those above, then you're in big trouble to begin with. Those words should already be in your vocabulary.

> *looks around* ...er
>... "bottle". Sure, one shouldn't use it like the air
>they're breathing, but it is needed occationally.


Everything's valuable occasionally, but I really think that only experienced writers should even trust the thesaurus. And then, they only need use it maybe three or four times a book.

What it comes down to is this: Throwing around big words for the sake of big words makes you look pretentious, and if your vocabulary is so sorely lacking that you rely on the thesaurus, then using it is only going to make you look silly. Mostly because people like that are bound to use the words wrong. Case in point: LQ! ^____^

Tilly

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