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2005-11-19

Free advice to screenwriters

If you're working on a gladiator flick please don't use the clumsy phrase "we who are about to die" for the Latin nos morituri. Six words for two? It's unwieldy and sounds obtuse. Much better: "we the condemned".

You're welcome!

(Also, if you noticed that I padded out that text with three words that mean exactly the same thing—well, that's why you're the writer, not me.)

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