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Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

Lazy words

On Monday I was telling you about my over-used words - like, look, just, and back. Maybe you use the same words too much or maybe you have different words but either way, I've realized that the reason they get used a lot is because I'm lazy.  The reason I know this is that during my search for those lazy words I discovered that I could often come up with a better, more accurate word if I thought about it for a minute. 

For example when I used the word 'like' did I mean enjoy or similar to? Could some of those looks turn into gapes or stares or examinations? The answer was often yes.

Which sadly confirms my realization; I'm being lazy by using those words and, more importantly, I'm forgetting one of the very important lessons:

Use definite, concrete, specific language.

It takes a little longer, but I have a feeling that what I'm doing now, this search and replace, is far more time consuming. What are your lazy words? Have you conquered any? I can see this as an ongoing issue until it becomes habit to find the proper word.

Thoughts? Opinions?