When I've edited others, I've always gone to great pains to get rid of the extra that. You'd think that that... is equal to You'd think that... And 'you'd t

When I've edited others, I've always gone to great pains to get rid of the extra that. You'd think that that... is equal to You'd think that... And 'you'd think that' won't risk distracting any of your readers. The problem comes when I'm actually writing. I tend to read my writing out loud to myself before I post it, and when I actually say things out loud, the double that sounds better. I have two conclusions: - My editing is all about hypocrisy. - It's hard to get out of the habit of writing how you speak.