- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Molto Breve
CONJOINED: Saying or writing just one word yet repeating oneself seems like quite a trick, yet patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired do it with ease.
These patients are often educationists or writers for scholarly quarterlies. For them, two items cannot be joined. They must be conjoined (and in the passive voice, please note).
Two or more items are never equal. No, they're coequal, if you please. Patients may even commingle them with each other.
Thus they add to their word count, verbosity being a virtue and an ego enhancer to them, but as a therapist, I'm overexhausted.
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