LANGTIVISM: WRITERS AND BURDEN OF REDUNDANCIES AND CIRCUMLOCUTIONS
Every writer is often constrained by certain common faults in writing, and these include redundancy, circumlocution, wordiness, over-lapping, verbosity, among...
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