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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> I ascribe this to the unwholesome habit of abusing food   
   AS>> as an antidepressant.   
      
   AK> I believe that your way of speaking  is  pretentious  or   
   AK> formal.   
      
   You cannot decide which? :-)   
      
   AK> I  don't  think  people  around you will be happy if you   
   AK> constantly  use  words  as  if   taken   from   medicine   
   AK> textbooks. "I ascribe this"! My foot! ;-)   
      
   Unlike  `prescribe',  `ascribe'  is a normal word in general   
   use without a less format synomym.  Oh, maybe "chalk  it  up   
   to"?  But that is patently informal, not even neutral.   
      
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