Timeline for How should "deceptively" actually be used?
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| May 12, 2011 at 22:29 | comment | added | Ryan Reich | The more I reread this answer, the more I like the suggestion to use "looks deceptively strong". The problem is not what the phrase logically means: in English, sometimes no one cares about that in practice. The problem is what it logically sounds like, and using "looks" logically emphasizes that one looks a certain way, with "deceptively" inverting that appearance in reality. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 14:40 | comment | added | Unreason | It seems so, but I would have to read the whole article first. Thanks for link. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 14:03 | comment | added | Ryan Reich | So you endorse E-prime? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime | |
| May 12, 2011 at 13:08 | history | answered | Unreason | CC BY-SA 3.0 |