These tricks do not lead to an increase in slovenliness and vagueness in writing
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Modern English prose, especially political writing, is characterized by vagueness and incompetence 1 0 2and
The work of prose-construction is often dodged by using dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction, and meaningless words 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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