‘Long Story Short’ Wants to Be the Wordle of Editing Bad Sentences
If you’re a company and you haven’t launched your own Wordle-esque two-minute game, are you even really in business? The starting sentences are deliberately verbose (or, at least, I hope they are.) Today’s example is this: “The famous high profile trial was delayed while the weary judge deliberated.” I won’t spoil the answer, although it’s pretty straightforward. But that answer does illustrate a couple of frustrating things about this game.
- ▪If you’re a company and you haven’t launched your own Wordle-esque two-minute game, are you even really in business?
- ▪The starting sentences are deliberately verbose (or, at least, I hope they are.) Today’s example is this: “The famous high profile trial was delayed while the weary judge deliberated.” I won’t spoil the answer, although it’s pretty straight
- ▪But that answer does illustrate a couple of frustrating things about this game.
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If you’re a company and you haven’t launched your own Wordle-esque two-minute game, are you even really in business? It seems to be a rite of passage for agencies and social platforms to devise addictive little time sinks for which people can reach when they have a couple of minutes to kill—and Long Story Short, launched earlier this week, is a company called Sheets.Works’ contribution to the…
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