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Long is good, good is bad, nice is worse, and ! is questionable

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Sanette Tanaka, "Fancy Real-Estate Listing, Fancier Verbiage", WSJ 6/6/2013: Savvy real-estate agents know it's not just what you say. It's how long it takes you to say it. More-expensive homes go hand-in-hand with longer real-estate agents' remarks—the language written by the agent that supplements the house description and photos in a listing. Agents use a median 250 [...]

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