Human Skills and Better Communication
My ‘lazy language’ file gets fatter every day. It’s absolutely bulging with examples of errors in written texts, made by those who should know better. And many of them are cases of misplaced adverbs.
They can mangle meaning, and turn a sentence into a piece of nonsense.
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Writers are totally, and probably literally, missing the point when they talk about ‘the stigma surrounding . . .’ something.
You’ve probably read it many times, and even used it yourself. The problem is that a stigma doesn’t ‘surround’ anything.
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