https://danwin.com/2012/07/zombie-nouns-or-dont-add-clarification-to-your-writing-clarify-your-writing/ Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 https://danwin.com/2012/07/zombie-nouns-or-dont-add-clarification-to-your-writing-clarify-your-writing/#comment-2493 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:30:13 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2126#comment-2493 Have you read “Style: Towards Clarity & Grace” by Joseph Williams? My advisor bought me a copy when it was time to start writing my dissertation, and it was quite enlightening. It contains a lot of syntactic insights like the advice here regarding nominalizations. Another thing from that book that stuck with me is that most English words come in pairs of synonyms, with one word of Anglo-Saxon origin and one of French/Latin origin. The Anglo words are typically more down-to-earth.

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