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Chris Fox's avatar

“ Dave, could you rephrase your last sentence to have somewhat fewer negatives?”

The council failed to overturn the ban.

For that, I need to draw a diagram. Dave’s sentence would hard to reduce.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

When typing on a cellphone it is easy to miss something when going back to rephrase something.

As for the virtue of brevity, when relating an incident (story telling) it is easy to become long winded, but when directly trying to express an idea, less can be more.

When taking a multiple-choice test with answer choices that are a bit verbose, the shortest answer is often correct for example.

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