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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

824.0. "Eschew and ... Pompous Proliixty" by SHALOT::ANDERSON (Documentation Wallah) Thu Aug 30 1990 20:45

	I need a full quote.  All I can remember is "eschew and
	... pompous prolixity."  Can anybody help me out?  Thanks,

		-- Cliff
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824.1SSGBPM::KENAHHealing the Fisher King's woundsFri Aug 31 1990 21:127
    Context?  Approximate date?  Speaker?
    
    It looks a little like something Spiro Agnew said -- in which case,
    your best bet would be contacting William Safire, who wrote many
    of Agnew's most memorable alliterative assertions.
    
    					andrew
824.2SAGE::GODINNaturally I'm unbiased!Fri Aug 31 1990 21:213
    Are you perhaps looking for "Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity"?
    
    K.
824.3Is there such a thing as a prolixiter?DDIF::FRIDAYReverse staircase specialistWed Sep 05 1990 23:491
    Is there such a thing as a prolixiter?
824.4SHALOT::ANDERSONDocumentation WallahThu Sep 06 1990 00:085
	Yes, thanks .2, that's what I was after -- it's just a way to
	say "don't be wordy" and catch someone's attention.  I'm using
	it for a presentation.

		-- C