>Ironic that an app calling itself "Hemingway" would recommend against the word "Utilize". >Utilized in one of the more memorable exchanges in The Sun Also Ris

>Ironic that an app calling itself "Hemingway" would recommend against the word "Utilize". >Utilized in one of the more memorable exchanges in The Sun Also Rises: >"Let us rejoice in our blessings. Let us utilize the fowls of the air. Let us utilize the product of the vine. Will you utilize a little, brother?" First of all, that's a character speaking, not Hemingway narrating. In the same book, Hemingway also writes in the voice of a Spanish laborer and other characters with patterns of speech that we would not ascribe to him. Second, in that passage, Jake is playing off the French verb "utiliser". In essence, he's being ironic -- a favored pastime of the lost generation. So this is all dialogue, not Hemingway narrating. You'd be hard pressed to find the word "utilize" in Hemingway's narration. (awaiting someone with a counterexample...3..2..1)