On Jan 5, 7:16 am, Robert Lieblich <r_s_liebl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> penang wrote:
>
> > The following is the result of an online search, please update me if
> > there are any errors, or if there's anything that I've missed -
>
> > abjured
> > absolved
> > abused
>
> [snip remainder of huge list]
>
> First, your list is of words in the past tense. "Say" is in the
> present tense. You've listed hundreds of pur****ted synonynms for
> "said," not "say."
Mea culpa.
I should have put "Said ... in different ways" as the title.
Sorry !
> Second, I doubt that you'll find anyone, even in AUE, obsessive enough
> to go through your list in the hope of improving it.
This newsgroup is about English after all. If none is interested, it
ain't gonna be my lost either.
> Third, these words aren't just "different ways" of saying "said."
> Almost every one carries a nuance misseing from "said," which is
> conspicuously neutral in this company.
Come again ?
"Better hurry!" he whispered. <=== if that "whispered" doesn't
indicate "said" in any way, so be it.
> If you'd tell us why you're doing this, someone might be able to
> help. As things stand, I doubt you'll get any useful responses.
It's English. Someone did post a 499 "ways to say" somewhere on the
Net. All I did was did another search, and I did come up with more.
If there's a "purpose", it's in a word - _share_
Usenet is about sharing, right?
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