Keep It Simple

Strike three.

Get your hand off my l<11ee.

You 're overdrawn.

Your horse won.

Yes.

No.

You have the account.

Walk.

Don't walk.

Mother's dead.

Basic events

require simple language.

Idiosyncratically euphuistic

eccentricities are the

promulgators of

triturable obfuscation.

What did you do last night?

Enter into a meaningful

romantic involvement

or

fall in love?

What did you have for

breakfast this morning?

The upper part of a hog's

hind leg with two oval

bodies encased in a shell

laid by a female bird

or

ham and eggs ?

David Belasco, the great

American theatrical producer,

once said, "If you can't

write your idea on the

back of my calling

card,

you don't have a clear idea."

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