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‘Dreyer’s English’ prefers clarity
Mike Donovan | Tuesday, March 5, 2019
This opening confession features a colon, a piece of punctuation louder than any exclamation point: Clarity scares me s—less. Why does clarity scare me s—less? I think it has something to do with intellectual insecurity — a general, chronic fear that I have nothing good to say. This fear prevents me from writing what I