Regina Cannot Explain It All


I'm Regina Small. I'm a writer and editor in NYC. I have a lot of opinions.


Interests include: sci-fi/fantasy, literature, summertime daydrinking, trying to be a better person, fancy manicures, philosophy, pictures for sad children, and the role of irony in the modern world. And fandom, of course.

I have another blog dedicated exclusively to science fiction/fantasy. Read it here.

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Can we just retire “plethora”?

ekswitaj:

nerdshares:

Smart people of the world: I know you are smart. No need to use this word. Let me introduce my good friends, “many” and “several.”

Are we allowed to use it on occasion for alliteration’s sake?

I allow you. (Jokess!) I really mean it shouldn’t be a go-to word to prove your intelligence when a simpler word would work better. I could get on board with alliterative use if it’s sarcastic or satiric.

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  3. fuckq reblogged this from nerdshares and added:
    haha. :] plethora. jubilee.
  4. thatsforsure reblogged this from nerdshares and added:
    lets add “copious”...“abundance” to that list too.
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  6. themarsresolution reblogged this from nerdshares and added:
    *Laughs nervously*...actually used this word two or three times in my Macbeth assignment....
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  9. mochanskittles reblogged this from nerdshares and added:
    when i’m feeling rather wordy….sometimes many...several just do not cut it!
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    Can we just retire “plethora”?
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  15. peegeethirteen reblogged this from andres and added:
    I prefer cornucopia myself.
  16. andres reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Plethora is meant to be used pejoratively: “there are a plethora of micro-blogging sites,” for instance. My snooty go-to...
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  18. kelseydoodle reblogged this from amomenttothink and added:
    SRSLY. Plethora = instant eyeroll.
  19. amomenttothink reblogged this from nerdshares and added:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTUmczVdik That is all
  20. thelonglistofthingsthatsuck reblogged this from bingoparaphernalia and added:
    also, doesn’t everyone just use “plethora” as a little wink-wink to the quiet fans of “Three Amigos”? No? El Guapo?...
  21. fuddmain reblogged this from yogisarah and added:
    Plethora does have a slightly different meaning from many and several. Plethora is an excessive amount. That said, there...
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