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5), Lisa-Marie Presley is "desperately pleading" with ex-husband Michael Jackson to get back together, says the Enquirer . "I'll treat his two adorable kids as my own," Lisa-Marie is quoted as saying, in the unmistakably stilted syntax of tabloidese.
She will soon be smarter than her mom and dad but is having trouble in school--no one can help with homework, and she's picked up the slurring, stilted speech patterns of her parents.
But, says the author, the steeling grip of lawyers on their stilted language is in fact the result of fear.
) Boo's brief boils down to two main charges: that Dowd's breezy, sardonic style has inspired a flood of stilted, self-conscious imitators; and that "the Dowd crowd" contributed to the erosion of political discourse by placing style and personality above seriousness and substance.
On the one hand, Pepys's English may seem slightly stilted or Biblical by modern standards, with frequent absolute constructions and the use of do as an auxiliary for affirmative verbs where no emphasis is intended, as, for example, in his entry for August 31, 1662, where he thanks “Almighty God, who doth most manifestly bless me in my endeavors to do the duty of my office--I now saving money, and my expenses being very little.”