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Experiments in getting to the point.

How’s this for a hypocritically ironic idiom?

March 5, 2008 at 2:53 pm · Filed under Constructive Criticism, Language

Practicing economy of language means axing wordy phrases like “in the vicinity of” and “at the present time” and . . . “economy of language.”

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  sarah mosley wrote @ March 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm

It probably also means dangling prepositions at the end of your sentences.

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