If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today’s bestsellers, and read one from the 1930’s instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just because a city’s name looks familiar doesn’t...
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n.— «Pads: they feel really solid. i like the short throw and stiff feel. as far as pads vs. sounds, the R-5 fares well.» —“R-5 drumz” by David A. Roth Usenet: rec.music.makers Sept. 20, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
privilege speech n.— «A few minutes after he received an ovation from his colleagues, Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, blasted him in what is called “privilege speech” on the House floor.» —“Swinford gains colleagues’ respect” by Enrique Rangel in...