Here are ten tips on selecting the right words in the right order and on making written words and phrases simpler, clearer, and better understood. The preliminary rule is first to be aware and conscious of your audience. Depending on the nature of the audience for your writing, any or all of the rules below […]
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Words are the least understood part of that crowded, undisciplined and noisy group of ill-fitting elements that together constitute communications. In fact, words often get in the way of communications, like rider-less horses in a race or like hooting cars in a traffic jam. We misunderstand each other every day, even when the meanings of […]
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Those of all political and cultural persuasions will be delighted to hear the exciting news. The old pronoun they, apparently re-purposed for new duty by the thought police, is not just a new way to hide gender-specific pronoun and possessive uses like he and she, him and her. In fact they was the word used […]