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words i could never read again…

…and be totally fine. when you work in the book biz you come across a lot of bad writing. and the problem with bad writers is they don’t read that much. otherwise they’d know that they all use these words to death. (bloggers, i’m lookin’ at you.):

decidedly (adv.)
cool (n.) as in “downtown cool”
ultra- (prefix)
singluar (adj., e.g. singluar style)
signature (adj., ibid.)
carefully curated
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= bad writing

to end on a positive note. here are two words and phrases i’d like to see more oF:
relevant (adj. see: cool, with it)
yeah, right

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