Hiccups 15:43 Sep 6, 2012
Yes it is your opinion. IMO, your reasoning is nonsense, and here is why.
My take is that accuracy and correctness is more important than the idea you mention.
Writing steady is simply using the same word twice. Egg omelette.
Good is the adjective needed with the term.
You either do or do not have sea legs.
If you do have them, they are steady... END of.
If you do no have them, then no amount of repetition of the word steady is going to mean you have a pair of sea legs.
A steady pair of hands okay.
You also cannot have an unsteady pair of sea legs. IMO. This is because if you are not in possession of your sea legs, then what you are is a person unsteady on a boat, or a person that does not have sea legs, meaning, you are not steady when stood on a boat and will end up throwing up... most do.
Examples:
1) The person throwing up from the top deck onto the passengers below appeared to have forgotten to pack his sea legs.
2) The person throwing up onto the delighted passengers on deck 2 appeared to have unsteady sea legs.
One of the two examples is nonsense, and it has nothing to do with so-called literary wannabe-ing or humour or lack thereof.
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