I'm more interested in the "scripted" and repetitive way announcers everywhere seem to say the same thing. Reminder - there are something like FIVE major outlets for everything you see and hear. I think Disney is now 40% of ALL movies.
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I'm more interested in the "scripted" and repetitive way announcers everywhere seem to say the same thing. Reminder - there are something like FIVE major outlets for everything you see and hear. I think Disney is now 40% of ALL movies.
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I've seen you opine ... er, pontificate ... no, expound ... okay, talk about ... this subject before, Tom. Big words of unnecessary complexity (sorry, a lot of syllables there) just sort of stick in your craw, don't they?
Yup.
usedto
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Mystic
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South Sided: "s'up y'all! N'lifuh 'oot?"
P.S. Further reduction acceptable: "s'upy'alln'lifu'oot?"
P.P.S. "But can you understand that as spoken?" -- "Да. With ease."
toxcrusadr
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I'm terribly late to this thread.
This one may be off topic a bit - rather than words that are too big, it's a case of too many words crammed into a sentence that should have been two or three.
All of which is true, but the basic point of the sentence has been obscured by the addition of too much background info and definitions of terms.
Why can't we write as plainly as we speak? Can't we just fulfill obligations instead of establish, by a preponderance of evidence, their fulfillment?
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which amended CERCLA, requires those seeking to maintain CERCLA LLPs to fulfill certain continuing obligations after acquiring property.
Any of the stuff I left out can be put into one or more additional sentences - if it's actually that important to say it.
Which style would you rather read?
This one may be off topic a bit - rather than words that are too big, it's a case of too many words crammed into a sentence that should have been two or three.
All of which is true, but the basic point of the sentence has been obscured by the addition of too much background info and definitions of terms.
Why can't we write as plainly as we speak? Can't we just fulfill obligations instead of establish, by a preponderance of evidence, their fulfillment?
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which amended CERCLA, requires those seeking to maintain CERCLA LLPs to fulfill certain continuing obligations after acquiring property.
Any of the stuff I left out can be put into one or more additional sentences - if it's actually that important to say it.
Which style would you rather read?
Papa had a style that transcended his knowledge. What was that dust-up he had with a critic of his sparse style??
FOUND IT....
It was William Faulkner -
Faulkner on Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
Hemingway: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
FOUND IT....
It was William Faulkner -
Faulkner on Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
Hemingway: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
"Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not."
Edwin Newman
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"Be curious, not judgmental." LOL
For clear and concise yet elegant writing try the autobiography of U.S. Grant. Or try damned near anything he wrote, such as his orders during the War of the Rebellion. The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion are online and Grant’s autobiography is available for free on Kindle.Old Uncle Billy Sherman had a way with words too.
I find many great voices in the history books. Always admired the words of the greats such as Churchill, Lincoln, Jefferson, Madison, but it seems that there were so many eloquent men and women in that time.
I miss the days where a talented speaker using the magnificence of the English language wasn't lampooned or mocked for doing such. Christopher Hitchens, I miss ya, you lout.
I miss the days where a talented speaker using the magnificence of the English language wasn't lampooned or mocked for doing such. Christopher Hitchens, I miss ya, you lout.
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