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Stephen King Has A Word That He'd Like Writers To Stop Using—And Twitter Has Some Helpful Replacements

Stephen King Has A Word That He'd Like Writers To Stop Using—And Twitter Has Some Helpful Replacements
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By George Takei staffOct 29, 2018
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Gather round, boys and girls, and hear a horrible tale of an overused word.

Stephen King took to Twitter to let would-be writers know they are overusing a certain word and it is making him very unhappy. We don't want this writer to be unhappy. Bad things happen when Stephen King gets unhappy.


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And when writers become unhappy, fans become unhappy.


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Nobody wants an unhappy fan, so maybe we should listen to King. Turns out the word we all need to get rid of is...


But, but, we love...


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Okay! We got it. Good thing Twitter had some replacements.



But some folks just had to push it.











And then there was this.

Great, now, we've really upset him.


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H/T: Mashable, Big Think

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