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                    [Summary] => Recently I was asked to do what I thought would be a small job of translation. It turned out to be extremely difficult. The reason: It was the kind of document that preferred to say in a hundred big words what could have been said simply in ten.


A handbook of composition once used a verse from Lewis Carrol as an example of good, simple, concrete writing:


The time has come, the Walrus said,


To talk of many things;


Of shoes and ships and sealing wax


And cabbages and kings.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-04-26 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804677
                    [AuthorName] => Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ
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Big words

By AT RANDOM | By Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ | April 26, 2004 - 12:00am

Recently I was asked to do what I thought would be a small job of translation. It turned out to be extremely difficult. The reason: It was the kind of document that preferred to say in a hundred big words what could...

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