Conciseness Solves Problems
rogersgeorge on November 8th, 2023
Yes, yes, the technical term is concision, but that’s not the word people use, except for us pretentious professionals. The word means to take out unnecessary words. Taking out the three unnecessary words here solves two problems. First panel:
Take out “was it that” and you have a much cleaner sentence, and it fixes two errors.
- Use “who,” not “that” when you refer to people.
- “It,” as spoken in the sentence, is a meaningless predicate nominative. Bad.
So just ask, “Who said ‘I’m not young enough to know everything?’ “
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