Filed under: Wilf Popoff WASTED WORDS: The editor as analyst Saturday November 24, 2012 Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. I find it hard to edit without playing amateur psychologist. Why did the writer do this? Carelessness? Ignorance? Of course it can be either. Compared to editors writers are not as alert, which is why they need us. But […] Read more Tagged Taggededitingtautaulogiestautologyusageverbosity