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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

Rudolf Flesch

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

Rudolf Flesch

Rudolf Flesch

Rudolf Flesch

Born: May 8, 1911

Died: October 5, 1986 (aged 75)

Bio: Rudolf Franz Flesch was an Austrian-born naturalised American author, and also a readability expert and writing consultant who was a vigorous proponent of plain English in the United States.

Known for:

The Art of Plain Talk (1946)
Why Johnny Still Can't Read (1981)

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