there anything in the Chilean media even worse than the famous ballad "John Doe is going to talk a bit about to "... ..
A little? What does that little.
Worse still is an intolerable crutch, our usual torture on television and radio. This is the word "pretty", which by its overuse both for scanning and for scouring wildcard cheap becomes unacceptable and tiresome.
is easy for those who use it, but it conveys a startling lack of imagination, which is endorsed the viewer and listener, who works hard to imagine compulsorily size and scope of the repeated "a lot."
Do a little exercise and conclude with me that the concept of "Pretty" can be very uneven for some and for others.
"The coach was pretty happy."
"The applicant ended rather sad"
"The dog was quite small"
"The minister looked very calm"
"The artist was quite daring"
"The homeowner said VERY scary"
How happy, how sad, how boy, how tranquil?
If you do a study on the use of words in our media, it strikes me that a lot ... have a good chance to be crowned champion.
Well ... maybe I am pretty confident you like this post and, possibly, be quite wrong. Most likely. I'd say pretty likely.
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