Sunday, October 16, 2022

On Writing

      Subtext and implication aside, any sentence has one job.  A few hard-working sentences have two jobs.  But if you find a sentence that has taken on three jobs, that ornate, high-living son-of-a-gun is robbing bread from the mouth of at least one shorter sentence and probably two, and should be made to give them up and adopt a simpler lifestyle immediately.

1 comment:

Mike-SMO said...

Love them legal sentences with a dozen commas, and semicolons. Legislation and contracts ain't for the faint of heart.