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    Rhetoric & Omission Entry #0583

    The reason understatement outperforms emphasis

    One draft calls the result transformative. The other says it went better than expected. Readers treat the second as the stronger evidence.

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    The hidden part #0583

    Saying less implies you could have said more. Emphasis implies the claim would not stand up without it.

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