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Tue 2006-05-30 00:03 |
I often spend time pondering the best way to phrase something, and find the hardest part is to avoid juxtapositions of phrases that happen to sound stupid together. (This is the same problem with phrases instead of words to that you get if you go fishing and catch an exceptionally large shrimp you want to say "GIANT SHRIMP" but know people will laugh, so may try to think of another name.
Sometimes rephrasing is the correct answer, sometimes accepting it is. But now I really really want to see warning labels that read: "Superglue. WARNING: very strong glue. (We know that sounds stupid, it's the only phrase that made sense.)" |
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