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# The more words there are
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"The more words that people speak"
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# the more meaningless they become
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The more a person speaks, the more likely he will speak about meaningless things. Alternate translation: "the more meaningless those words are"
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# What advantage is that to a man?
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The author uses this rhetorical question to emphasize that there is no advantage for a man to talk a lot. This question can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "That is no advantage to a man." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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