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by Dr. Viva Palaver

COOPERATE TOGETHER:  As staff psychologist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I often counsel linguistic therapists who become so sickened by their patients' use of niceness and togetherness that they have violent thoughts.

Usually, these therapists have already become hyper-sensitized from treating a very difficult subset of patients.  Sadly impaired but very perky and vapidly cheerful, they use together like too much Bath & Body Works cologne.  They cooperate together (and cooperate with each other), interact together, conference together, dialogue together, and collaborate together - everything but learn good English together.

I counsel my therapist-clients that they're not crazy to repeat that simple language is good language, and that using redundancies is like painting an athletic trophy.

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