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The takeaway (that obfuscation is bad and specificity is valuable) is clear and uncontroversial. But an issue is that nearly every suggestion entails lengthening your prose.

There is a time and place for precision, and there is also one for concision. Marketing speak is dangerous not due to brevity but intent.



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