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by deviationblue 2854 days ago
Define unnecessarily
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Anything you wouldn't read-out loud if you were presenting the article verbally to an audience.

My wife occasionally reasds BBC news stories to me and it's remarkable how much 'blah blah hang on a moment til I find the story' even those contain.

Thorstein Veblen vs. E. B. White.