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A comment on Five Ways to Write Like The Economist [pdf] (2010). Parent comment

Re:Five Ways to Write Like The Economist [pdf] (2010) by Veen on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:36AM (#32627257)
The Fowlers called this habit elegant variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation

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Re:Five Ways to Write Like The Economist [pdf] (2010) by xdavidliu on Sunday August 28, 2022 @09:12AM (#32628136)
oh so THAT's what that's called! This practice is fine for literature and other forms of art, but I often find people using it in code and comments and like, which find totally counterproductive and unnecessary.
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