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@marick@mstdn.social First example, I was updating my writing instructions and include: ... Precedence: These are surface-form bans. If a prohibited form is the only accurate way to express a technical point (e.g., a real "not X but Y" correction of a specific error), correctness overrides the ban — but the burden is on genuine informational need, not rhythm or emphasis. and got back an aside: Precedence clause has an exact ancestor — Orwell's six rules in "Politics and the English Language" end the same way: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous." Working as instructed and kind of interesting.