Word Count Inflation Olympics
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"Clearer" or "more clear" - which one is grammatically correct?
In how many words can you answer this question? 1 word? 5? 50?
How about 17 paragraphs?
English Grammar Help: Clearer or More Clear? | EF English Live
Anyone studying English will tell you that it’s not the most straightforward language in the world. There are plenty of grammar rules to learn, but the English langu
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That article would be far more clear if there were fewer typos within it.
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@Dragoon said in Word Count Inflation Olympics:
That article would be far more clear if there were fewer typos within it.
It would also be more clearer if it were a bit more conciser.
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@Gąska said in Word Count Inflation Olympics:
*"Clearer" or "more clear" - which one is grammatically correct?
In how many words can you answer this question? 1 word? 5? 50?
"Both".
If you want an explanation, it will require a little more than one word.
But not seventeen paragraphs, I'll admit.
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Try almost any mid- to late-19th-century novel … Publishers paying by the word, without setting a limit, is a very good way to up the word count of books.
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@Gurth said in Word Count Inflation Olympics:
Try almost any mid- to late-19th-century novel … Publishers paying by the word, without setting a limit, is a very good way to up the word count of books.
It's not just a 19th-century thing. I can't find it now, but a few years ago Howard Tayler wrote about a panel he was on at a convention, about keeping your writing short and to the point. He was elated because one of the other people on the panel was a famous, bestselling author, and at one point he said "Howard's the only one here qualified to be speaking on this subject; I get paid by the word!"
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@Mason_Wheeler I didn’t know this was still a thing. The only writing I’ve ever done for pay was so many cents per word to a certain word count, which was therefore just an awkward way of saying you got a fixed amount for the piece: nobody ever paid for the exact word count, only for the target. “10,000 words on <subject> at US$0.03 per word” for example, but whether you delivered 9324 words or 10,676, you got US$300.
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@Gurth If it was out by more than 676 in either direction, the whole thing would be rejected
