Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword" video.

  1. Evidence: Sample of Washington's 1st inaugural: "Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision,
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  2. You should try to read some of George Washington's speeches or long letters. So hard to read or listen to when someone reads them out loud. Full of zombie words LOL!
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  3. "as the asylum of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications..." LOL!
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