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<p>[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2496127, member: 22602"]The funny thing is that no decent writer would use "enhance" in the above sentence when "improve," for example, does the job more accurately. "Improve" implies fundamental change while "enhance" implies incremental or superficial change. We "enhance" our vocabulary by learning a few new words every day while we "improve" our comprehension through constant reading. A city can "enhance" its highways with landscaping but must "improve" them through rebuilding. Or, another way, you can "enhance" the flow of traffic—an incremental change, through "improving" the infrastructure—a fundamental change.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to "harness" something means to ready it for action—the opposite of what you seem to be saying (I can't really tell). We harness horses and nuclear energy to use them, not constrain them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So maybe the one whose communication skills need improving...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2496127, member: 22602"]The funny thing is that no decent writer would use "enhance" in the above sentence when "improve," for example, does the job more accurately. "Improve" implies fundamental change while "enhance" implies incremental or superficial change. We "enhance" our vocabulary by learning a few new words every day while we "improve" our comprehension through constant reading. A city can "enhance" its highways with landscaping but must "improve" them through rebuilding. Or, another way, you can "enhance" the flow of traffic—an incremental change, through "improving" the infrastructure—a fundamental change. And to "harness" something means to ready it for action—the opposite of what you seem to be saying (I can't really tell). We harness horses and nuclear energy to use them, not constrain them. So maybe the one whose communication skills need improving...[/QUOTE]
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