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Sunday, November 4, 2007
Exageratation Inclination
Removing superlatives can make technical communications more authoritative.
For example,
"The Sonic25 platform blows away the competition and is immensely better than anything else available."
becomes...
"In our tests, the Sonic25 platform scored higher than competing technologies."
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