View Pit Stop page for race #1992 by eric_17 — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 40.03 wpm (160.08 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | April 5, 2020 5:21:36pm UTC |
| Race Finish | April 5, 2020 5:24:16pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (5 of 5) |
| Accuracy | 89.0% |
| Points | 55.37 |
| Text | #4180452 (Length: 534 characters) Originally, to be sure, abbreviations were intended to serve the convenience of the reader by shortening names so that cumbersome phrases would not have to be repeated in their entirety. The purported simplifications actually simplified. But many writers - especially technical writers - seem to have lost sight of this goal: they allow abbreviated terms to proliferate, and their prose quickly becomes a hybrid-English system of hieroglyphs requiring the reader to refer constantly to the original uses of terms to grasp the meaning. |