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It's kind of like putting book authors in this kind of a list. Using more words and more complex ones doesn't really say anything about the quality of the writi
by hatu 12y ago
It's kind of like putting book authors in this kind of a list. Using more words and more complex ones doesn't really say anything about the quality of the writing. Pretty interesting data-set for fun though.
- throwaway13qf85 12y agoWilliam Faulkner once criticised Ernest Hemingway by saying that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Hemingway responded by saying, "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."