Timeline for Heavy usage of synonyms in English or not?
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| Aug 22, 2011 at 12:23 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 12:12 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | “in German it is considered very bad style to use a word more than once in a sentence or even in close proximity” – That’ just a stupid pre-school propaganda. Ignore it. “he opined, retorted, coaxed, stuttered, belaboured” – f*ck, he said. Unless you use it ten times in a row or want to go for a specific effect, use the simplest word. In elementary school it makes sense to have the pupils exercise their vocabulary to build up a thesaurus. But that’s just a didactic ruse, don’ take it for a rule on style. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 4:18 | vote | accept | Plankalkül | ||
| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:53 | comment | added | Plankalkül | @nohat: You are right of course but it seems that most of the people got what I was trying to say :) | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 0:24 | answer | added | kojiro | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 23:07 | comment | added | Pekka | English and german writing differ very little in this respect. | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 22:55 | answer | added | onestop | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 22:54 | answer | added | Jon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 20:33 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 20:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/47030086016319488 | ||
| Mar 13, 2011 at 20:11 | comment | added | nohat | I will note that you used the word "in" 9 times in your question, and "the", "this", "is" and "a" 5 times each. The first sentence alone contains 3 "in"s and 3 "a"s. Maybe you mean something more restricted than "a word" in "very bad style to use a word more than once in a sentence or even in close proximity" | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 19:44 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | Every English style guide I have used has suggested the same thing as you describe in German... | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 19:41 | history | edited | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 13, 2011 at 19:10 | history | edited | Plankalkül | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 13, 2011 at 19:06 | comment | added | nico | +1 Good question, I sometimes find myself struggling with the same problem, being Italian. :) (and therefore I do not have an answer for you!!) | |
| Mar 13, 2011 at 19:03 | history | edited | Plankalkül | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 13, 2011 at 18:56 | history | asked | Plankalkül | CC BY-SA 2.5 |