177 He Absolutely Had to Obtain Him (1/2)
Su Yan clicked on the [next] button below the text and finally saw something helpful.
[Examples of fillers are words showing a vague degree like 'slightly' or 'almost'. Other filler words don't signify a degree but add the same vagueness to your sentences. Examples of that would be 'just' or 'kind of'. Words that don't add vagueness but instead try to reinforce absoluteness like 'absolutely' or 'really' are equally fillers.
Take a look at the following sentences and read them once with and once without the filler words to get a better understanding of the subject:
1) Upon feeling Ping Cheng's hands on his buttocks Fang Bao blushed slightly.
2) Chao Fen just couldn't imagine a man more perfect than Ouyang Li.
3) Qin Tai looked at the petite figure in front of him and decided then and there that he absolutely had to obtain Chanyu Ru.]
Su Yan stared at the examples the system had provided. It wasn't that he had any problems with the content, after all, he was now a bl author. Why would he mind such sentences? The problem was rather that he didn't understand the problem! Didn't these sentences sound alright? What was wrong with them?! He certainly wouldn't mind reading them in a novel.
He frowned and tried to read them without the filler words just as the system had told him. It seemed … nothing had changed? The sentences still meant the same and didn't read any worse. Well, maybe the third one did. Wasn't it a difference whether the person absolutely had to obtain him or if he just wanted to obtain him?
Su Yan pondered the issue but still couldn't find a satisfying answer. Unfortunately, this was already the last part of the theory the system provided so he couldn't even hope to get more information. As a last resort, Su Yan could only turn to the side and tug at his boyfriend's sleeve.
Nie Chang immediately turned around and raised his brows. ”What happened? You don't look happy at all. Don't tell me your system bullied you?”
Su Yan pursed his lips. ”It did! It gave me three sentences as examples but I don't really understand what it wants to tell me. You have to help me!”
”Alright?” Nie Chang put the phone he had worked on away and waited for Su Yan to read the sentences to him.
”The first two are alright, I guess. But the third one is strange. Listen to this: 'Qin Tai looked at the petite figure in front of him and decided then and there that he absolutely had to obtain Chanyu Ru.' The system claims that it'll be the same if I don't have 'absolutely' in the sentence. But aren't that two different things? I feel like if he absolutely has to do it, then he will definitely obtain him regardless of what happens but if he only decides that he wants to obtain him, then he might give up if things happen.”
Nie Chang leaned back and pondered. Actually, Su Yan might not be completely wrong but … ”I don't think anybody would pay attention to that or even if they did, they probably wouldn't interpret it that way.”
”Why?”