Examples Illustrating Conciseness

rogersgeorge on July 6th, 2021

Or concision if you want to be fancy. I got this from a Facebook post, so no useful credit.

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Rules of thumb:

if you can leave out a word without changing the meaning, leave it out.
If you think of a shorter way to say something, say it that way.

PS—the picture disappeared from Facebook. Sorry. You can find another post on this subject dated August 4, 2021.

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