Timeline for What's wrong with usage of word "different" in this particular way/style?
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 3:10 | history | edited | choster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 21, 2018 at 4:22 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 4:51 | comment | added | Zan700 | @saket Yes, you didn't repeat different, but but you didn't use another adjective, so what you basically said was that animals have diseases. You need another adjective to clarify. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 3:28 | answer | added | Jason Bassford | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 2:58 | comment | added | saket | @Zan700 it gives same message even without repetition of word Different,check the screenshot I have just attached. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 2:57 | history | edited | saket | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2018 at 2:11 | comment | added | Zan700 | There is a rule of composition that a writer should avoid repeating a distinctive word close to its original instance, especially if the same word is used for different purposes Here you have repeated "different" in the same sentence; that alarms MS Word. However, your use of "different" is similar in both cases, so you could make an argument for not changing it. But that's a bit subtle for MS Word. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 1:54 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It offended the MS Word gods. If you don't appease them they will "lose" your document. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 1:43 | history | asked | saket | CC BY-SA 3.0 |