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PhilLenoir6-Jan-15 6:24
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Mark_Wallace5-Jan-15 7:51
Mark_Wallace5-Jan-15 7:51 
PhilLenoir wrote:
such an eloquently worded attack
It's hardly eloquent. The excessive elision not only makes it ineloquent (by crunching two clauses into what looks like one), but leaves it open for misinterpretation, because "just almost" looks like a weird ESL-induced tautology.

I know that F-grade, arrogant style guides written by academics who don't have a clue what they're talking about say that you should use as few words as possible*, but you should never omit any word that is necessary for the reader's comprehension of the meaning.

"It's just that almost all of you..."







* A genuinely useful rule would be "Use the right number of words"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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