Diana Urban has a list of 43 words that can often be deleted from a piece of writing without doing any harm: "Removing them helps speed up the pacing of both action and dialogue, and makes your work more polished and professional." Also, Cory Doctorow on Steven Pinker's list of 58 commonly "misused" phrases: "There's no denying the smug satisfaction of reading through the list of 58 pitfalls and tallying up all the ones that you never get wrong!"
December 17, 2015
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