- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Weiss N. Heimer
DISAPPEAR FROM SIGHT: I'm afraid I'm not always gentle with my patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired. When one of them presents with Deep Seated Redundancy Syndrome, I often opt for shock therapy.
"What do you thing disappear means?" I shout at them. "Disappear from smell? Hello?"
If the patient is a public official or media figure, I get even rougher. "Do you think using three or four words when one will do makes you look intelligent? It makes you look pathetically ignorant! Do you think you help yourself by using extra words to gain a tiny bit more air time? Here's a news flash, Sport: It makes your audience get sick of you a tiny bit sooner!"
I'm just trying to help.
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