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Trim the Wordage - Part 1
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In making this check you will have fun. And you will learn a lot too. You're not given to excess wordage, are you? You don't think so. But wait until you get through this check. Montesquieu said, "What orators want in depth, they make up for in length." While you are not trying to be an orator, I hope you can still do a lot of cutting with profit if your speech is written like most speeches. Almost anything can be written shorter. Perhaps in this speech you do not have a gem like that used by the fight announcer as the battle for the heavyweight title started. He said, "May the crown of victory descend on the brow of the more worthy participant." That is putting "May the best man win" in a full quota of words. But don't laugh—we all do it. Perhaps you have a number of such passages in your speech. The average speech writer adds words to his script in a number of ways. Here are a few:
1. The way you say things—most of us are wasteful of words. 2. The sayings that make you sound like a stuffed shirt. 3. Saying the same thing twice and not for repetition or emphasis. 4. The use of two words where one will do. 5. The introductions to ideas that don't help express the ideas. 6. The extra lines in the anecdotes. 7. The additions, the etc's. You keep on talking after you stop. 8. The adjectives—the ones that don't register. 9. The mentions of time. 10. The connectives.
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