THREEESSENTIALS
&hreeessentialsoftheEnglishlay,PerspidPre。
ByPurityissigheuseofgoodEnglish。Itprecludestheuseofallslangwarphrases,obsoleteterms,fnidioms,ambiguousexpressirammatiguagewhatsoever。santheuseofanynewlyedworduntilsuchtedbythebesteakers。
&ydemaexpressionofthoughtveyedinunequivoguage,sothattheremaybeandihethoughtorideathespeakerorwriterwishestovey。Allambiguouswords,wordsofdoublemeaningandossiblybestruedinasefromthatirictlyforbiddeyrequiresastyleatoncedpreheirelyfreefrompomparyaionaftereffect。
Prerequiresdexactexpression,freefromredundandtautology,astyleterseanddsimpleehehearerorreadertoprehehemeaningofthespeakerorwriter。Itforbids,ontheonehand,alllongaend,ohosethataretooshortandabrupt。Itsobjectistoldenmeaninsuchawayastorivettheattentionofthehearerorreaderoteredorwritten。