: Re: Aside from judging by ear, when should repetitions (he, she, they, a character's name, etc.) be excised? In a recent issue of the London Review of Books, a professional translator of French

I simply don't agree with the translator about repetition in English. Unless it is being done for effect, most words shouldn't be repeated within two sentences of each other and very few should be repeated in the same sentence (the main exception being articles). This is something I have taught to students as well.
Read your work aloud and to find repetitions that shouldn't be there. I spend a significant amount of time finding synonyms for repeated words.

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