Glasbergen Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen for January 12, 2025

Someone appears to be preparing for a career in politics.

A “vague” generality.

Yeah, what he said.

William Strunk Jr. (1918):

“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 he make every word tell.”

— "Elementary Principles of Composition", The Elements of Style

Huh? Could you perhaps clarify and condense that overly verbose statement into a simpler and more concise explanation?

I assume you’re deficient in communication

jeez, he’s right!

Apparently, my brain has not fully accepted retirement with the rest of my body as I actually understood that sentence.

The peril of auto-thesaurus.

…and you thought we couldn’t tell if you wrote this using AI!

…..must have needed a certain number of words!!!!

Say what?

I think I read this in a key to effective management book.

huh?

exactly!

Written like a true politician.