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Because everyone knows that women love men with accents.
 
 
 
 
With the simple addition of "are" before "the holy grail" ambiguity suggesting that McDonald's is deep frying a sacred vessel could have been avoided.

See this article from the New York Times this weekend with other wonderful examples where the removal of small key words created ambiguity of language, and a few laughs.
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A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.The Economist
 
Good writing is not only about deep legal analysis but also about clarity.
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