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Petethetrucker's avatar

One of my more successful routines while teaching English to German business personnel was to take a sentence, any sentence, supplied by the client and reduce it, one superfluous word after another, until it was impossible to eliminate any further words without changing the meaning. Especially useful for speechwriting, I found.

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

What a good exercise!

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