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Does it come off as weird/offensive to describe someone as 'brown' in partial reference to their skin color, but in absence of a specific descriptor?
Color terms that also have a meaning of race (red, white, yellow, brown, black) in conjunction with a noun referring to a person (man, woman, girl, boy) always evoke that racial meaning.
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Does writing in a certain mood change how a writer writes?
Connection? Yes... a bit of one. Sure.
I understand that this is a bit late and may never be read -- which is fine, I can always spruce it up a bit and use it as a blog post.
The connection you are ...
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Thoughts on using "looking to" in marketing content
Seems fine, but shorter is better: "Companies want to increase profits while keeping costs down." Or "seek to".
In sales copy, short clear sentences are better, they are punchier, ...
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I need ideas for what to refer to animal characters as. For humans, we have the word "people." I'm looking for a similar one for animals
I guess the answer may depend whether you're going for a Jungle Books kind of story or Narnia.
If it's the Jungle Books type, meaning the animals are portrayed mostly as actual animals, then you may ...
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I need ideas for what to refer to animal characters as. For humans, we have the word "people." I'm looking for a similar one for animals
So I through the word "people" into thesurus.com and it came back with, among other things:
Herd - Could be that the collective body of sentient animals use "herd" as a general ...
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Would it be possible to write a novel without using the word "The"?
There is an entire school of writing that that thrives on creating works based on such constraints. It's called Oulipo: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, and comprises writers and mathematicians who ...
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I need ideas for what to refer to animal characters as. For humans, we have the word "people." I'm looking for a similar one for animals
In the Redwall books, the many different species have the same problem. The author chose to not use the word 'people' to describe the collective of intelligent animal kind. But at times the creatures ...
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I need ideas for what to refer to animal characters as. For humans, we have the word "people." I'm looking for a similar one for animals
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the animals speak of themselves as "animals".
If animals had their own language in which they discussed politics and social life, they would of course have ...
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I need ideas for what to refer to animal characters as. For humans, we have the word "people." I'm looking for a similar one for animals
Creatures.
Beings.
Individuals.
Citizens.
Members.
Tribe Members.
Or make up a gender and species-neutral word, after a place or area, like we use "Americans", "Canadians", "...
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