On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 8:52:10 AM UTC-4, !Jones wrote:
x-no-idiots: yes

On Wed, 24 May 2017 02:29:04 -0700, in talk.politics.guns "raykeller"
whiney_will_have_his_nose_in_my_ass_in_3_2_1@left ards_are_loosers.com
wrote:

Dropping the Hammer on Comey... Brilliant!

Good copy and paste; however, you should cite the source. I'm
snipping because I don't know that.

Another point: good expository writing should avoid what are called
"loaded terms" such as: "James Comey is a poisonous snake of the
highest order€¦" Any herpetologist could easily refute that statement
because Comey simply isn't a snake.

Yes, I know: it's called a metaphor and salting an essay with a few of
these is acceptable; however, the essay drags on and on with these
"horrible, evil and corrupt powers infesting our government..." etc,
etc, and so forth. My thought is to use the metaphors sparingly so
that they have greater effect; if the author fries us in the first
paragraph, we just get numb to them.

That paper is far from "brilliant" by any standard; it wouldn't even
be a very good high-school essay, at least not for an honors class in
a quality school. Give us a break.

Jones

If Kopypasta Keller posts it, it isn't worth reading. Reading his posts is something that even *he* doesn't do.

And those two sentences contain an anadiplosis, since you seem to have an interest in such things. d8-)

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Ed Huntress