Microblogging helps me keep things concise. - Sally Robinson

He says: "Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are:" -- which can be shortened to "Phrases that can be replaced with one word without losing meaning:" Can't help myself.:-) - Dave Winer

Yes, phrases can be shorten to one word, but it doesn't sound as good when spoken. There are still places (speeches, e.g.) where shortening phrases wouldn't work. - Rui Pereira

Read the piece, when I hear those phrases either in writing or spoken, they make me cringe. - Dave Winer

Let's do global find and replace on the interwebs. That might save a few GB. :P - Meryn Stol

Applied in reverse, it's an excellent way to increase your word count for school assignments. ;) - Meryn Stol

Love this. :-) - Anton Mannering

This depends on context. Those phrases in some contexts can't be reduced without changing/losing meaning. - Tanath

Good writing is about mixing it up. For instance, if you are writing a resume you never use the same phrase twice even if you are saying essentially the same thing "I did this" 20 times throughout the resume. - Alex Scoble

Baloney. Good writing is about clarity and precision. - Glen Campbell

Sorry, Glen, I didn't know that mixing it up and clarity/precision were mutually exclusive. Good writing is about lots of things. - Alex Scoble

"at this point in time" is in there twice (and I agree with Alex about mixing it up; in my writing classes, I was taught not to get too repetitive, so changing words around is often necessary) - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Informative. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

I think "at your earliest convenience" is less presumptuous than "soon" if you're asking someone to do something, as opposed to directing them. - m13a

'Short and sweet' is always short, but not always sweet (though 9/10 compacting per this guide is best). - Micah Wittman

Brevity is the soul of wit. - Phil Boiarski

Why don't they put this list in grammar dictionaries of word processors? Makes sense to me. - Phil G

This is fantastic. For Twitter and just generally. - Chuck Falzone

ah the foundations of Newspeak... - Ňicķ

Reminds me of my tech writing course *shiver* - Bwana ☠

Our evil prof would fail your paper if you had more than 2 mistakes... these kind of corrections would count as a mistake - Bwana ☠