dado à Habit, Bias, and Language Choice: Why This Small Construction Shapes Big Meaning
I don’t buy the idea that small language choices don’t matter. Anyone who writes seriously—news, essays, fiction, legal copy—knows that tone and implication live in the margins. dado à sits right in that margin. It quietly signals judgment, habit, and expectation. Use it well and the sentence sharpens. Use it carelessly and the line collapses…