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Put aside the fact that Hawley’s motivation was likely not syntactic concision but the desire to pick a fight and spark a viral moment and a provocative Twitter post . A pressing language question still lingers here.
As I’ve written before, if you’re looking for a word’s meaning — the weight it carries, an understanding of how its usage will affect others — even the best dictionary will get you only a fraction of the way there. Context is essential to understanding motivation, or whether a word’s definition has expanded or contracted since its dictionary entry was last edited. A few months ago, Sen.
No grammatical solution is one-size-fits-all. Aim for both precision and concision, but when one has to win out, ask: By using a less precise term, am I hurting anyone? Let’s avoid that. By using a less concise term, am I making it harder for others to understand what I’m saying? Precision won’t help you if no one can understand you, and as any decent law professor knows, legal writing in particular is often uniquely inscrutable — largely because it twists itself in knots to be overprecise.
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