words I take a second look at
- List of ones I haven't heard others talk about:
- too: Too what for what?
- actually: "I actually mean it this time"
- Ones that are on my list and are also fairly common
- should: "Should" considered harmful
- although "could" is also often a yellow flag
- although counterfactuals are somehow still important
- I don't yet know [[how to do counterfactuals well
- Meta to all of this:
- How to eliminate words from your idiolect
(2014 blog post of mine; would probably approach it pretty differently now)
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"Hurt" considered harmful
- I have a few words I take a second look at when I see them, and one of them is the word "hurt".
- I don't usually use the "considered harmful" format for this sort of thing, but as you'll see it's a pun in this case.