Word Choice Exercise 2
In the spirit of Strunk and White’s deliberately poor rewrite of Thomas Paine’s “These are the times that try men’s souls” (see p.67 and Zinsser p.37), take each quote and rewrite it to make it worse (or better).
3. Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
*Some people are in the tabloids while others are in the textbooks.
4. We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
Alt: Love is all about bearing with imperfections.
5. If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Old Irish Saying
Alt: God gives money to people who characterize how he feels about money.
6. The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
Alt: The radical thinking of one generation is picked up by the next.
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