Is the literary rule of "don't repeat words too much" true of all languages? Unless it's like the specific point of what you're currently writing? Like, you know, you should use the sentence "the situation was dire and everyone had a dire feeling". Instead we're taught to write more like, "the situation was dire and everyone had a terrible feeling."
>>24943870Spanish isn't a good example. The vocabulary of the average human bean is like 200 words.
Like most "literary rules," it is not a rule. If you want to make it a rule it would be to not excessively repeat words unless you have a well founded reason to do so, with what is excessive being vague and subjective. These "rules" are meant to get you to consider your writing and not just slap it down on the page and reach for the thesaurus.
>>24943870>taught to write?there's plenty of application of repeating words, i.e. in rhetorical speech/propaganda or song texts.in prose you want to keep the reader engaged, and you dont do that by boring people
>>24943870>In French the use of elegant variations is considered essential for good style.[13][14] A humorist imagined writing a news article about Gaston Defferre: "It's OK to say Defferre once, but not twice. So next you say the Mayor of Marseille. Then, the Minister of Planning. Then, the husband of Edmonde. Then, Gaston. Then, Gastounet and then... Well, then you stop talking about him because you don't know what to call him next."[15]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation
