Jonathan_Graehl comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 25 October 2011 05:23:12AM * 2 points [-]

-31. Put the most impacting words at the end of a sentence.

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this?

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 25 October 2011 06:06:25AM 2 points [-]

How about

31b. Reserve the end of the sentence for what matters.

But then

It's you who's guilty.

The guilty person is you.

With the aid of explicit emphasis, I don't see any need.