Re: A sentence should contain no unnecessary words
Make every word tell | Akhil's Notes
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
But um, I um, I like my unnecessary gobbledygook words. It's fun to write. It's fun to draw. Life need not beeeee so precise or so right or so dog gone concise.
Sure there's a time and place for to-the-point language or drawings, but there are also so, so, so, so, so, so, sooooo many times to play