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Originally Posted by Normal
Your just to worried about homophobes too care about the spelling seen. What could bee better than a grate idear behind grater content cuz thats all that madders.
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Heh. Phonetically that's a B+. Any other criterion....
But, waxing pedantic for just a moment, WHAT you want to say when writing is heavily dependent on HOW you say it. Onomatopoeia, euphony/cacophony, etc., all play a part in good writing. Often, the word choices in and of themselves can impart a meaning to what is written that can be entirely independent of what the words say. One favorite example: A story is written about the impending retirement of a well known office-holder. Both stories are precisely the same, word for word, but with two notable exceptions. One story refers to the person in question as a "venerable statesman", while the other uses the phrase "aging politician". To me, "venerable statesman" brings to mind someone like Winston Churchill. "Aging politician?" Any one of probably twenty less-than-savory examples. The INFORMATION presented in both stories is precisely the same, but the FEELING one gets from reading it may be entirely different.
Yeah, I know. Not tremendously important here in TOTV.