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«Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.»
«There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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Art,
Language
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acquire, brief, For some, in brief, observation, plain, plain language, record
«I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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adjective, adjectives, close together, creep, creep in, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, fastened, flowery, fluff, fluffed, Modern English, plain language, Plain Words, sentences, Short words, simple language, stick to, stick together, verbosity, weaken, wordy
«Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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