Are durations a suffixed word?

We know about chronologically to describe order by time, but what is a word that defines duration?

What does it mean if school is taxing on your time?

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if you do find a suitable value for XXX, no one will ever thank you for writing that “school is XXX- istically taxing on/of an individual's time” when all you mean is that school heavily taxes an individual's time…school comes taxing is a far stronger verb phrase than is taxing the can ever hope to be. “Let me just say this to you, in case I’m having a lot of anxiety — please


What is the easiest way to delete an ugly word you know nobody has ever heard of, by invoking it as a singular sentence or not including it in the body of the words you choose?

Language is about the infinite combinations of meaning achieved through syntactic arrangement of separate words, and so the recurring quest to find a single word, howsoever abstruse it may be, to replace a multiword concept, is quixotically self-defeating if your goal is to be understood.

What are the numerous substitutions of words from phrases about other words? What are their results for us as writers? Why don’t you just make people reading your articles suck it up? It is almost always better to use some simple words rather than one fancy one.

Review of Helen Sword’s New York Times article: “Zombie Nouns” of 23 July 2012 (2018). The article opens with the following text, bold emphasis mine:

Nouns formed from other parts of speech are called nominalizations. Are academic/business writers still underrated? Is there a single person in a class and whose lifeblood is sucking out in “bombies nouns”. No “drugs” are considered. (The action is to replace abstract entities for human beings.)? Yes,

this article is about nominalizations not adverbializations, but the issues are identical. ”

Iteratively applying derivational morphology — read, applying a long string of multiple suffixes — to create derived terms will indeed “suck the lifeblood” out of your writing.

What happens when a piece is written by a scholar, attorney, bureaucrat, and business writer….? More common than usual, medical practitioners are unable to help themselves despite how notorious it is, and how universally scorned it is, they can’t seem to help themselves. If you did not already do, you are now better. How could you be doing it?

Your desired -ically suffix is already Two or Three suffixes all by itself. I know I am weak in my writing. Can I handle that? Is it better to convey message though propaganda than “parody”?

What happens when the difference is noticeable?

The first uses an ugly and awkward adverbialization, while the other uses a simple adverbial phrase to say the same thing in other words. If I want to find out how to spell a phrase in a document, I have to go through the phrase version.

Summary

Avoid deprecating prepositional phrases with words creating clattering cascade of suffixes. (Introduction) Why English has prepositions?

Answered on March 28, 2021.
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Why is education becoming chronically tormenting? Chronically–Lasting and lasting for a long period of time; of

long duration.

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What does rationally mean? My worst bet is “temporally”

How do you make a typo in the alliteration of “temporally taxing” feel bad for context? Is temporally inefficiencies, IMO?

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Answered on March 28, 2021.
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