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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. | ||
**'''Example''': don't define " | **'''Example''': don't define "Tax" if all you mean by tax is ''any tax, duty, excise, deduction, witholding, impost. [... improvise freely] ... or levy imposed by a competent authority having power to tax...''. If your construction will, you know, ''show up on the Google'' as a synonym for "tax", then write "tax". If | ||
*''Use the active tense''. Avoid the passive whenever you can. | *''Use the active tense''. Avoid the passive whenever you can. | ||