Comments on: Need to cut words? Call a copy editor. http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2009/10/need-to-cut-words-call-a-copy-editor/ (another damned blog) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:08:36 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mpf004 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2009/10/need-to-cut-words-call-a-copy-editor/#comment-159 mpf004 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:11:30 +0000 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2009/10/23/need-to-cut-words-call-a-copy-editor/#comment-159 my favorite story about brevity of words: President Coolidge ("Silent Cal") went to church one Sunday. When he got back, his wife said, "what was the pastor's sermon about?" Silent Cal said, "Sin." She said, "well, what did he have to say about it??" Coolidge: "He was against it." my favorite story about brevity of words:

President Coolidge (“Silent Cal”) went to church one Sunday. When he got back, his wife said, “what was the pastor’s sermon about?” Silent Cal said, “Sin.”

She said, “well, what did he have to say about it??”

Coolidge: “He was against it.”

]]> By: DorothyMantooth http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2009/10/need-to-cut-words-call-a-copy-editor/#comment-158 DorothyMantooth Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:57:38 +0000 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2009/10/23/need-to-cut-words-call-a-copy-editor/#comment-158 That skill is, indeed, vital. (Feel free to edit out "indeed.")* *And "out." That skill is, indeed, vital.
(Feel free to edit out “indeed.”)*
*And “out.”

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