[stylist] Pet PVS

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Andi,

Actually, it kind of is incorrect because it's a redundant statement,
and most writers will tell you to not use the same word over and over
within close sections of text.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:12:02 -0400
From: "Andi" <adrianne.dempsey at gmail.com>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Pet PVS
Message-ID: <4f6b4f57.e49a320a.21bc.ffff9984 at mx.google.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

I do have pet peeves about writing...  I do not like it when people
repeat words when they could have used another, for example "I want to
go home, but theirs nobody home."  That sentence bugs me and I don't
know why but I can think of at least four ways to rework it.  This
especially bugs me when I myself do it and can not think of another word
to use that makes since. When the thesaurus is also not help I want to
get rid of the sentence but can not because the sentence is needed.  I
feel like the hole peace is a failure.  I don't know why it bugs me so
much it is not grammatically wrong but I feel like it throes the hole
thing off.

Andi