Re:Write Simply
by dang on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:49AM
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That joke spoils itself by adding "trick". But if it didn't, then it wouldn't work, since "Why use many words when few will do" is perfectly grammatical.
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Re:Write Simply
by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:07AM
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why use many word, few do?
Re:Write Simply
by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:12AM
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I suppose if you were golfing it, "many word? few!" would be the endpoint.
Dang
The joke was that I was acknowledging the point "that the joke spoils itself by adding "trick"", was acknowledging the point with a single word, and that single word was simply the username of the user who pointed out that the joke ruins itself - thus, reusing a word already in the thread instead of introducing a new word. Guess I took the "why use many word when few word do" too far!
Re:Write Simply
by superhuzza on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:37AM
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That would be inherently less funny - the whole joke is that Kevin isn't really saving any time by speaking in a confusing way, it's just dumb.
If anything, your point makes the joke funnier - he's managed to make the sentence longer than has to be, in addition to grammatically incorrect, to express the same idea.