This is from a newsletter I subscribe to, from a well respected professional writer.
108 words
6 words repeated 19 times (2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6)
I stopped paying attention to his intended message.
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DAN ALATORRE 
21 replies on “Irony or Sarcasm?”
I don’t know about everyone else, but I have better things to do with my time…
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I guess he did, too
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ACK! But this is a good lesson to teach my writing students – of what NOT to do….
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It’s both. Instruction on what to do followed by an example of somebody who obviously did not do it!
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I’ve started doing this to my MS for weird words. It’s amazing/depressing how many times I wrote “sagged”. 😦
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We all have our crutch words!
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You missed a “readers”! It’s worse than you thought.
I want to say irony, because it has to be, right?
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He’s a smart guy. So I’m guessing yes.
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I did miss a repeated “readers.” Incredible.
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Only funny if I don’t do it. Guilty.
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Ha! Right!
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The first one not guilty can throw the first stone. *sigh*
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I actually do the find/replace thing, so I get it, but….At least you made pretty colors!!
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Aesthetics count.
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My crutch word changes each week, it’s ‘amongst’ at the moment. I always check for eyes, they are everywhere. 😬
Shared on my fb page.
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[…] Irony Or Sarcasm? […]
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Ha! That was brilliantly done, a great reminder, AND it hurt my soul to read all the way through. I was cringing so hard by the end I practically have a headache.
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Thanks, I think…
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? Yes, it was a compliment. To me it was an obvious example of what not to do done in an ironic and humorous way, meant to show how repetition negatively affects writing…. Sorry if that didn’t come across.
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No, no – it definitely did. I was trying to be funny!
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Oh good 🙂
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