“Calculated for Likely. ‘The bad weather is calculated to produce sickness.’ Calculated implies calculation, design.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
“Calculated for Likely. ‘The bad weather is calculated to produce sickness.’ Calculated implies calculation, design.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.