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		ulizzle on May 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in... No one will fall apart and burst into tears because of an adverb they read in the mountain of documentation we have to read to get the job done. Navel-gazing of the highest order.

spondylosaurus on May 1, 2023 [–]

You lost me there again, my friend. Technical writing stylebooks draw no correlation between adverbs and nervous breakdowns. You seem to be tilting at an entirely different windmill than the one I'm tending to.

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