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I've found the most readable text is often the text that is natural. The more you torture the wording by over-thinking it the more you diverge from natural lang
by causality0 5y ago
I've found the most readable text is often the text that is natural. The more you torture the wording by over-thinking it the more you diverge from natural language. Sure, you may improve it from an analytical standpoint, but a large portion of reading is a subconscious process and your subconscious doesn't like it when the writing has been poured through ten filters before hitting the page.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoThis seems like a separate point, many people don't actually speak in plain language... so their "natural" way of writing is similarly inaccessible.
- mannykannot 5y agoI edit most of my writing. Sometimes I see that my words might mean different things to other people. That can be confusing.