Difference between revisions of "Roget's Disease"
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Revision as of 10:15, 25 November 2020
A term attributed to John W. Campbell, Roget’s Disease is the ludicrous overuse of far-fetched adjectives, piled into a festering, odorous, tenebrous, ichorous, leprous, synonymic heap. It applies to both pro and fan writing.
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