{"id":3376,"date":"2010-10-21T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2010-10-21T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T09:39:12","slug":"la-palabra-precisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2010\/10\/21\/la-palabra-precisa\/","title":{"rendered":"The precise word"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>I’d like to present you today with a good example of the simple, precise prose to which we always aspire. And with the example, an exercise.<\/p>\n

Last night I started reading “Of Human Bondage”<\/em> by W. Somerset Maugham. On the first page, a maid takes a sleepy child in her arms to his mother’s bed. The mother greets him. Maugham writes:<\/p>\n

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Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exercise: Which is, in your opinion, the best chosen word in this line? My answer, tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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