Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Some grammatical rules are not always followed. One example I cannot help but notice is that conjunctions are not always used to join sentences together. The full stop and exclamation mark are supposed to end a sentence, and a sentence is to be begun with an uppercase character, but- Alas! this is also not always the case.

By the way, I am the most humble person in the world. (The fact is that I am the most humble person in the universe, but I only claim to be the most humble person in the world. This just shows how humble I am - never mind the extremely high likelihood that the only people in the universe are in this world.)

It is my humble opinion that one should perhaps refrain from the use of weasel words, as they can occasionally cause the sentence to be- in many people's view- unnecessarily lengthened. It is also not impossible to show that any proposition, when sufficient padded with weasel words, can become so shrouded in uncertainty that it may not convey enough meaning. The use of weasel words may therefore be considered as dishonest, since the user pretends to make a proposition, yet gives him/herself such a large error margin that he/she can perhaps never be wrong.

Jam.

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