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====General Principles==== | ====General Principles==== | ||
*''Avoid definitions''. Mostly, people can figure out what you mean without doubt from the context. Only use definitions when you are using a word in a specific way that does not align with its ordinary meaning. | *''Avoid [[definitions]]''. Mostly, people can figure out what you mean without doubt from the context. Only use definitions when you are using a word in a specific way that does not align with its ordinary meaning. | ||
====Specific examples==== | ====Specific examples==== | ||
*''[[For the avoidance of doubt]]'': This is an explicit acknowledgment that what you have just written contains doubt. You are a solicitor: a wordwright; an officer of the Queen’s English. You have a qualification in the unambigous conveyance of ideas. Physician, heal thyself. | *''[[For the avoidance of doubt]]'': This is an explicit acknowledgment that what you have just written contains doubt. You are a solicitor: a wordwright; an officer of the Queen’s English. You have a qualification in the unambigous conveyance of ideas. Physician, heal thyself. | ||