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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about phrases you read in books but rarely say or hear in real life? Two that I seem to read often: A character "padding" somewhere: "She padded down the hall to the bathroom." Describing a character's hair as "scraped" back: "Her hair was scraped back into a ponytail." [/quote] That’s writing. She could walk down the hall to the bathroom, but it’s more evocative (if a bit precious) to say she padded. She could stride. She could gambol. She could trudge. She could plod. These all have different connotations and change the meaning of what she’s doing. [/quote]
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