Re: You know what the main issue with the book Harriet and Lillian is?

Thu 23 Jul 2020, 12:11 am

barto wrote:John Armstrong uses the word 'Probably' more than 1,000 times.

That by itself kills the whole book. Something Hargrove, Norwood et all seem to 'forget'.

End of discussion of Stripling, Frankenstein Oswald, McBride and so on and on.... get a hobby or a pet instead.

Really? A thousand times? An average of around once a page?

I mean, good that he was honest enough to use qualifiers I suppose. But yes, it doesn't help his Ministry of Propaganda.

Thu 23 Jul 2020, 1:26 am

I need to correct myself, I somehow 'remembered' more than 1,000 but by the look of it it was 'only' used 247 times... The bottom line is though that if you have to use that word that often then anyone can string things together to make a believable story...

Thu 23 Jul 2020, 1:29 am

barto wrote:I need to correct myself, I somehow 'remembered' more than 1,000 but by the look of it it was 'only' used 247 times... The bottom line is though that if you have to use that word that often then anyone can string things together to make a believable story...

Okay. Thanks for the correction. I wouldn;t like to say one way or the other of that is unusually high number for that size book or not.