long-winded

niece asked me to go over her report...

me:  'it's too wordy...  is there a minimum number of words?  are you required, for example, to write something in no less than 500 words?'

niece:  'no, tita...'

me:  'then let's trim this...  when you don't really know what you want to say, you tend to use a lot of words...  when you know exactly what you want to say, you can distill your message into just a few words...  let's take this sentence...  it's too long...  what exactly are you trying to say here?  what is your main point?'

niece chuckles:  'actually, i'm not sure, tita...'

wahaha...  see!  ; p

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