One of speechwriters’ tools of the trade is economy of expression — not choosing a four-syllable word when a two-syllable one will do; not larding up a phrase with adverbs when a single tough verb would suffice; not taking an entire paragraph to express a sentence’s worth of ideas. (And some might say, not using […]
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