Repetition

Before we repeat something, we should consider using pronouns and omitting words

John Douglas Porter
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
3 min readJun 8, 2022

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In The Careful Writer, in an entry titled “Monologophhobia and Synonymomania,” Theodore M. Bernstein identifies a common linguistic disease and the kind of person who suffers from it:

“A monlogophobe (you won’t find it in the dictionary) is a writer who would rather walk naked in front…

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John Douglas Porter
Writers’ Blokke

John Porter manages his family’s cattle ranch in California, where he also writes screenplays, essays, and stories.