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Related: Slender Yellow Fruit Syndrome (when a writer doesn’t want to repeat a word like “banana” and so writes something like, “He peeled the slender yellow fr
by dgreensp 3y ago
Related: Slender Yellow Fruit Syndrome (when a writer doesn’t want to repeat a word like “banana” and so writes something like, “He peeled the slender yellow fruit.”)
http://www.teflspin.com/2009/10/technical-writing-and-slender-yellow.html http://www.teflspin.com/2009/10/technical-writing-and-slende...
I think send-ups like this are great. Love it.
- readyplayernull 3y ago"He peeled the antimatter enclosing fruit" for the SciFi fans.
- astrange 3y agoThose are called "elegant variations". Or inelegant variations if you get them wrong.