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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by donkeys Some call them stubborn But we respect them

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for sticking to their views All right Checking the following

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passage All right Which of the substitution Sze would improve

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the underlined portion of sentence for and here the potential

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answers All right Well the first step here is take

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another look at the sentence in question In the eighteen

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twenty eight election the republican candidate tried to smear his

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opponent and referred to him insultingly as a donkey though

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he used a different word Well yeah this looks a

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little wordy it's clear that we can cut choice d

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which suggests that we leave everything as is because all

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is not well in denmark Here answer b tells us

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to snip the parenthetical entirely and it also takes out

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the part about the donkey reference being insulting Well if

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we did this the readers would miss the point that

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the republicans used um or offensive version of the word

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donkey Joyce a misses the point in the same way

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as be parenthetical and a bit about the slur being

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insulting or both cut Also comparing a person to a

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thing isn't quite the same as referring to that person

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as being the thing moving on our best choices See

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putting donkey in quotation marks implies that the republican candidate

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used the other word for donkey which we all know

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is a bit more insulting Incidentally the american donkey lee

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has recently started a campaign against anyone using the lightness

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of a burrow in a derogatory manner This sort of 00:01:45.538 --> [endTime] insulting exploitation just has to stop

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