So, the great unwashed aren’t the only ones who have problems with excessive sharing.

Today, on Michael Silverblatt’s excellent weekly show on KCRW, “Bookworm,” the writer/interviewee served up several examples of problematic usage.

(I’m paraphrasing here, from memory.  The podcast may be available here.)

He talked about how two of the characters in his new novel “actually shared many things in common.”  I wonder why they didn’t just “have” many things in common.

He also mentioned that they “both shared a love for (such and such).”  “Had,” people.  Just say “had.”

And, he described how “(something) is different than (something else).”  (More on this one in a future post.)

I will read his novel anyway.  The book sounded great, and he seemed to be a pretty intelligent guy.

That’s part of the problem.