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   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 17.11.2019 13:59   
      
    AK>>>> I believe this change has been caused by the fact that very many   
    AK>>>> people live in stress, and food is a very effective   
    AK>>>> antidepressant.   
      
    AS>>> The ubiquotous "the fact that" is exceedingly cumbersome and wont   
    AS>>> to appear whenever the author has given insufficient thought to   
    AS>>> arranging the sentence. I avoid it at all costs, together with   
    AS>>> the fused participle, e.g. "due to many people's living in   
    AS>>> constant stress."   
      
    AK>> Be simpler! If you can say an idea in a simple way it is not   
    AK>> necessary blame yourself. Greatness is in simplicity!   
      
    AS> But simplicity is one of the hardest things to attain. It is easy   
    AS> to complicate matters, but skull-cracking and brain-cudgelling hard   
    AS> to simplify them! What, for example, are your proposals as to the   
    AS> simplification of your cumbersome sentnece? Or do you want to   
    AS> improve mine?   
      
   -sentence   
      
    AS> How about this   
    AS> "I ascribe this to the unwholesome habit of abusing food as   
    AS> an antidepressant."   
      
   I believe that your way of speaking is pretentious or formal. I don't think   
   people around you will be happy if you constantly use words as if taken from   
   medicine textbooks. "I ascribe this"! My foot! ;-)   
      
   PS: IMHO ;)   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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