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Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs | LitReactor

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From this point forward – at least for the next half year – you may not use “thought” verbs.  These include:  Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use. 

Pete A. Nicholson

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Pete A. Nicholson is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and editor. Fonts: Larish Neue (headings) + Lyon (body)

graydon2 | always bet on text

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Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.