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How Can You Avoid Sounding Pompous In Your Writing?
Use these 12 words sparingly or you’ll look stuffy
4 min readMay 26, 2022
By day I do freelance editing for a magazine that publishes print and online articles by four generations of writers, ranging from older members of Gen Z to boomers. In that job I’ve noticed a paradox:Gen Z writers often sound more…