Dictates
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Both words in one sentence
- And nowadays even if you could write prose like Traherne's, you wouldn't be allowed to... At bottom, every ideal of style dictates not only how we may say things, but what sort of things we may say.
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Most players have lost more games by saying "anything but an X" than by bad strategy.note If you need to say something, and good sportsmanship dictates you usually do, saying "2s to squish" is usually safe-ish
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Fridge logic dictates that it's possible that he would have gained the super powers if he had a face the first time he said it and didn't need to use the speaking program from the portal bracelet, as he did not say the words himself that time.
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