만약 어떤 단어/글자를 빼내더라도 그 정보가 큰 손상없이 그대로 전달될 수 있다면 가차없이 삭제해라. TheElementsOfStyle의 법칙 중 하나. RefactoringPages에 적용된다.

{{| Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

instead of

use

the question as to whether

whether

there is no doubt but that

no doubt

used for fuel purposes

used for fuel

he is a man who

he

owing to the fact that

since(because)

the fact that he had not succeeded

his failure

--William Strunk Jr. from TheElementsOfStyle |}}


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