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Thus any new regulatory environment should be well thought out for the possibility of its unintended consequences. Sometimes less is more and flexibility to changing environments should be the key to any process instead of presuming to assure that "it never happens again."
Lets just see how smart you Boyz really are. In the above 2 sentences there is one word that absolutely denigrates intellectually a paticular persons position. Much as a torpedo would strike the hull of a ship. Which word is it and why does it have that effect?
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I vote for the word "should" in both sentences. It implies that it wasn't done and should have been with due competence.
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I can't answer the question because I am the grammar nazi and I could not find a single question mark in your post.
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i dont understand the question..
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While an error, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's so grave as to "absolutely denigrate intellectually a paticular persons position" because I would guess that the average reader would not catch the error and would know what, I think, the writer was trying to convey. Yes, to continue to pick the nit, one could legitimately respond to the sentence as written by asking "the possibility of its unintended consequences to do what?" If you are saying that there is one word that occurs in both sentences, I can't see it as of yet.
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