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Redball:
I think he's wrong. He's insisting on an almost visual use of the two phrases, holding out your left hand, looking down at it, "On the one hand...." and holding out the right, "On the other hand."
To my editing sense, "On the other hand" conveys the sense of "however,"

Is it cold in here?:
Strunk and White would tell you to drop "on the other hand" entirely, but I dislike their advice.

Kugai:
Then again ..........

LTK:
Thanks for the advice, I'm just going to leave it in then.

LTK:
If 'to discount' is to reduce the price of something, then why is, for example, 'discount pizza' pizza that was cheap to begin with, rather than pizza that has been reduced in price?

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