Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.

Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird. The funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases.

Another caution: while it may be up to you to volunteer for tasks, it often isn't up to you if a higher-up voluntells you for a task by assigning it, but making it look like it is optional for you to accept it.

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