[Right Wing Professor]

Too many words, too many sylables per word. Try and get them down to 1 and 1, respectively.

A little earlier in the year, the Economist, extolling simple prose, wrote an entire editorial in monosyllables. It was a bit strained in some sections, but all and all, a creditable and amusing effort.

I started composing a letter in reply entirely in polysyllables, but got busy at something else, and never finished it.

[Doctor Stochastic]

If it is to be as it is, is he to go on, or to be in on it?