The Art of Plain Talk, Volume 10 |
Contents
PLAIN TALK IS AN ART | 1 |
LETS START WITH CHINESE | 11 |
LISTEN TO PLAIN TALK | 20 |
Copyright | |
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abstract adjectives affixes per 100 American Aneurin Bevan average sentence Basic English bites Chapter Chinese class of sales conversation corundum count course Dictionary eco-nom-ic economic empty words everything example explain fact FAIRLY DIFFICULT FAIRLY EASY George Oliver Curme gobbledygook grade grammar guage happens hard idea idioms instance Katharine Cornell kind literary look magazine Maury Maverick maximum price means ment modern never noun number of affixes paragraph passage Paul de Kruif periodic sentences personal references plain English plain talk prose Pulp magazine readable reader Reader's Digest rewrite rhetoric rule sales or deliveries samples scientific semicolons sentence length short simple language simplify speech split infinitive Stephen Vincent Benét story style tell tence textbook things tion translate understand verbs vocabulary writing written yardstick formula