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=== Simplicity ===
=== Simplicity ===
All else being equal, make it ''simple''. This, of course, depends on your counterpart: you can’t clap one-handed, and a dogged pettifogger who takes pride in convolution — there are many of these — will not be assuaged by your best intentions, however noble. She will have her [[severability]] boilerplate, and that is that.   
{{Drop|A|ll else being}} equal, make it ''simple''. This, of course, depends on your counterpart: you can’t clap one-handed, and a dogged pettifogger who takes pride in convolution — there are many of these — will not be assuaged by your best intentions, however noble. She will have her [[severability]] boilerplate, and that is that.   


But [[Pragmatist’s prayer|Serenity’s Prayer]] is your friend, all the same. Sure; there are things you cannot change — bear them with good grace and a joyful heart — but just as many yet that you ''can'': you may have to live with whatever pedantry is flung back to you but do not ''court'' it by needlessly complicating what you send out.   
But [[Pragmatist’s prayer|Serenity’s Prayer]] is your friend, all the same. Sure; there are things you cannot change — bear them with good grace and a joyful heart — but just as many yet that you ''can'': you may have to live with whatever pedantry is flung back to you but do not ''court'' it by needlessly complicating what you send out.