Quotes About Abbreviated
Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words but how narrow their range, from boastful to irked and back again. For satirists and impressionists, a president who addresses the American people in abbreviated tweetspeak is a gift.
~ Howard Jacobson
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Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the snap ending.
~ Ray Bradbury
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the creation tales of Genesis are edited and abbreviated versions of much more detailed Mesopotamian texts, which were in turn versions of an original Sumerian text.
~ Zecharia Sitchin
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The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
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Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
~ Bayard Taylor
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Even so, as was his custom, he writes the name in an abbreviated form: "Wllm Shaksp." It also has a large blot on the end of the surname, probably because of the comparatively low quality of the paper. Though it is only a deposition, it is also the only document in existence containing a transcript of Shakespeare speaking in his own voice.
~ Bill Bryson
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For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
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of the short time for preparation, each of these mesocycles is abbreviated. If you
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