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stavros
· 2026-08-29 Sat 23:19 UTC ·
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What I find funny about "why use many word when few word do trick?" is that it's only slightly shorter than the regular "why use many words when few words do the trick?"
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rapind
· 2026-08-29 Sat 23:48 UTC ·
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I always figured that was part of the joke, because a writer came up with it, and a writer would know (I assume?).
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inopinatus
· 2026-08-30 Sun 07:54 UTC ·
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The latter is not a complete alternative, it is ambiguously conflating vocabulary scale with word count, and also, it is not as funny
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happycube
· 2026-08-30 Sun 10:22 UTC ·
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less word better(, many words bad)