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Open Thread for Night Owls: Word choices both perfect and flawed (Daily Kos)
From the "Word for Word" feature at _Lapham's Quarterly_:
> Qualms about the proper use of the thesaurus go back to Roget’s original. An
anonymous review in the September 1852 issue of The Athenaeum voiced the
concern that the thesaurus would simply be used as a “crutch” for writers, who
would be better off avoiding “the frequent recurrence to a work of this kind.”
The view of it as a mere crutch persists to this day, especially among writers
of fiction and poetry who see the frequent consultation of it as somehow
impeding natural expression. Consider this pronouncement from Stephen King in
a 1986 piece for The Writer:
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>> You want to write a story? Fine. Put away your dictionary, your
encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your
thesaurus into the wastebasket. The only things creepier than a thesauÂrus
are those little paperbacks college students too lazy to read the assigned
novels buy around exam time. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is
the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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> The poet Mark Doty was similarly forthright in a 2011 interview:
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>> If you ...