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To: Seruzawa

> I had to read that a few times to figure out what the heck happened. <

Me too. That one sentence about the gag order contained three negative words: denied, forbidding, and defying.

I’ve read that shorter sentences are, in general, easier to comprehend. I guess the authors of this article disagree.


4 posted on 10/26/2021 11:26:36 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

I am absolutely not, not, not, not, not, not happy about this.


5 posted on 10/26/2021 11:31:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Leaning Right

Double negatives should be avoided. At least that used to be the rule. These here guys just ain’t got no good grammar.


6 posted on 10/26/2021 11:31:47 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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