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zero_intp
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A Modest Proposal for Improving Website Authentica...
The thing you would do away with is called 'idiom' and it serves* very well in literature and speech.
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sixbrx
on May 21, 2013
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Nowhere did I suggest to do away with all idioms. I just don't like the ones of the form "<adjective> <noun>", when the meaning is far from <adjective>.
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