Don’t try to impress someone by thesaurusizing your email with terms you wouldn’t use in person– it sounds diaphanous, limpid, and transpicuous.

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Robert Merton once wrote that "Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born".

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This one is a translation from Russian:

My girlfriend complains that her mother estimates all her purchases in ... bananas. "Ouch! You could by 5 kg of bananas for it!"

She has been doing it for last 10 years.

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