On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:00:11 -0800 Freeman <eve...@worldwidehtml.com> wrote:
... > I am forever struggling to keep posts brief, to be expeditious in editing > them down, to get to the point, to include vital details, and to somehow > avoid being disingenuous. %0 "In the days when I was sitting in his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness and obvious relish, that he often seemed in the position of having shortchanged himself — a man left with nothing more to say yet with time to fill, a radio prophet who had out-distanced the clock. Will Strunk got out of this predicament by a simple trick: he uttered every sentence three times. When he delivered his oration on brevity to the class, he leaned forward over his desk, grasped his coat lapels in his hands, and, in a husky, conspiratorial voice, said, "Rule Seventeen. Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!" -- E. B. White: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003417.html http://www.metafilter.com/80199/Omit-Needless-Words#2497944 Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
