Unit 3 · Chapter 16 · 8 min
Specificity, brevity, word order
The three edits that turn a joke that works into a joke that kills.
'A dog' is nothing. 'A greyhound in a raincoat' is a picture. Specific nouns do the work of three adjectives because the audience builds the image themselves, and people laugh harder at things they helped build.
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