“Never say anything in writing that you wouldn’t comfortably say in conversation. If you’re not a person who says ‘indeed,’ or ‘moreover,’ or who calls someone an ‘individual’, please don’t write it.”
-William Zinnser, Writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher.
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Couldn’t agree more – I can’t stand it when people write “there were two males that fled the scene” for example. No one calls them that (except military/cops).
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