<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="text-align:-webkit-left">Apparently the legal doublets in English date back to the centuries right after the Norman conquest, when, in order to be sure your listener understood you, one had to use both an English word and a French or Latin term. </div><div style="text-align:-webkit-left"><br></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-left">Some examples that will be familiar: "aid and abet" "over and above" "part and parcel" "terms and conditions" "free and clear" "hue and cry" and on and on… </div><div style="text-align:-webkit-left"><br></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-left">So obviously doublings are right and proper and we should neither cease nor desist from using them. ;)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="text-align:-webkit-left"><br></div><br><div>
<div>Tara Maya</div><div><a href="http://taramayastales.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"></a></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">But some of them are just wrong! Take 'back and forth'. Clearly one cannot go back without first going forth. So either use 'to and fro' or change the former to 'forth and back'. bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><a href="http://taramayastales.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/taramayastales" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unfinished-Song-Epic-Fantasy/310271375658211?ref=hl" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tara-Maya/e/B004HAI038/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1349796143&sr=8-2-ent" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2951879.Tara_Maya" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></div><div><br></div><br>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">How about rescuing certain words from tight couplings to others? For instance, whenever someone says "travesty," it's almost always coupled with "of justice," no? Well, use it in other words to break the couple. There's nothing wrong with "travesty of logical argument" or "travesty of a good date." Ditto for "abject" and many other words. <br><br>Regards, <span><font color="#888888"><br><br>Dan <br></font></span></span></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Yes, How about let's start with 'close proximity', or 'band together' (most uses of 'together' are redundant - e.g. 'group together', 'pair together' etc.) bill w<br></div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span><font color="#888888"> My latest Kindle book, "Born With Teeth," can be previewed at: <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2</a></font></span></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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