Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Yet another reason for brevity: the more the words, the more the mistakes.

There must be some statistic somewhere that shows the number of mistakes per 1,000 words that writers make (is it a mistake to end a sentence with the word “make?” Did I put my punctuation marks in the right place there?).

Given x mistakes/1,000 words, it seems obvious that to reduce the number of mistakes, all writers and speakers will reduce the number of words we spout.

Somehow, for some reason, few of us heed that advice. We run on and on with page after page and minute after minute of explanation and wordy words.

And so I will end this blog post here. I could add more words, but that would only increase the chances that I write something stupid.