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11 December 2008

Overstatement

At Robust Writing, Jesse Hines has written an excellent post on Overstatements: An Enemy of Honest and Accurate Writing. I would add that overstatement is an enemy of persuasion, as it’s highly likely to set off the judge’s bullshit detector.

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