At 08:07 AM 3/10/2008, Craig Hancock wrote:
>    I think if I were trying to improve writing in a one-day 
> workshop, wordiness is something I would target. But we do have to 
> be careful about it. There are very good functional reasons for 
> extraposition. . . . Less wordy texts are often clearer because we 
> have (to quote the late great Don Murray) "gotten the static out". 
> But that raises clarity to a goal and makes cutting words a means 
> and not an end. . . .

DD: I admire your caution. We should not ignore Shannon's work from 
Bell Lab on Information Theory and the transmission of messages. 
Rather than being static, redundancy helps insure that the message 
gets through the static.

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