Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Word order

From ABC News: Fauci fires back at White House aide who trashed him in op-ed
Subtitle: "Let's stop this nonsense," Fauci said.
by Ben Gittleson, July 15, 2020.

This sentence:
Over the weekend, the White House provided several media outlets with a misleading list of comments made by Fauci, in an effort to undercut him.

Note: "a misleading list of comments"

I think they mean to say "a list of misleading comments", which would mean that Fauci's comments were misleading, or were thought to be misleading by the White House.

As written, the statement means ABC News finds the list of comments misleading.
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