About brevity.

[Doctor Phibes]

@mik said in About brevity.:

Aqua will like this. I did.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/how-emotionally-intelligent-people-use-the-mark-twain-rule-to-become-exceptionally-persuasive/ar-AATgqB0?ocid=msedgntp

tl;dr

[89th]

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Pretty good.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in About brevity.:

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Pretty good.

Which is why payment by word count is ludicrous.

[Mik]

That's what we were taught in newswriting classes. Never use two words when you can use one. Go through it. Then again. And again. And again.

It's surprising how much can be cut. I should use it here.

[George K]

@mik said in About brevity.:

That's what we were taught in newswriting classes. Never use two words when you can use one. Go through it. Then again. And again. And again.

It's surprising how much can be cut. I should use it here.

FIFY

[Mik]

[89th]

[Axtremus]

Emojis are very succinct.

[89th]

[Jolly]

@mik said in About brevity.:

That's what we were taught in newswriting classes. Never use two words when you can use one. Go through it. Then again. And again. And again.

It's surprising how much can be cut. I should use it here.

Yeah, but then many long threads would boil down to two words.

F you.

[Doctor Phibes]