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elucidating 🤌🏼 (feddit.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

I have a visceral reaction to words like elucidate, and other fluff. My writing has to be very to the point, and technically accurate. Because of this, I carve up drafts from juniors like a Thanksgiving turkey.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Most "professional" writing is just a bunch of phrases interspersed with a few chunks of information.

I'm involved with bidding and grant proposal stuff for software and it's 90% empty words. I draw two diagrams and a page of text, sales deletes 60% of the text, misinterprets the rest and then puffs it up to 30 pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They let the ad guys write grants and then wonder why they don't end up getting them

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