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I was a casual user of ‘I am sure . . ‘ , ‘ It is sure that . . .’ till I realised that these are meaningless.

When I began a newsletter with a sentence “I am sure many of you would have gone to the …. fair at ….”
The editor made the first remark, “How are you sure? I am not!”
It was a bounce on the face. But he was right! No one is sure for that matter. Even I was. I had assumed that the fair was so attractive and popular that many of the local people would have gone to it.
But assumptions do not in any way get to the plates of a reporter. The first lesson in reporting!
When a newsletter to the subscriber is generally a one-to-one format of a letter with a personal touch, could it violate the basics of writing and reporting?

It cannot.

Have you come across these words – Scintillating, great, mind boggling. There are many more in this list.

For a short reading on meaningless words, go here!