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Before Twitter's 140 chars, it presented a metagame that refines writing and thinking--a tonic like Strunk's Rule 17: "Omit needless words."
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In Japanese you can say "I am sad", but grammatically you must say "Aki seems sad". E′ tries to awaken this sensibility in English speakers.
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Looking at my scientific papers (with coauthors), my favorite abstract omits to be altogether, and another uses it only in the subjunctive.
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