January 14, 2009Poison Phrase ~ High-energy, hysterical presentation

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I’m sure there were plenty of people this worked for, but when I read the description of a training program as being a

- high-energy hysterical presentation,

I laughed. Check your thesaurus and you’ll see synonyms like crazed, bezerk and histrionic. Yes, it also means very funny, but there are too many other common definitions of this word that the author certainly does not intend. I’d use hilarious.

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