True Helen. I got about halfway through. Tough slogging for me.
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Yes, it is tough. But worth it. I also appreciate the strategic use of the language but recognise that people who are not familiar with it might not see what he is doing with it and why it's so amazing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
You shouldn’t have had to translate. That you did so indicates the piece is badly written, and needed a firmer editorial hand. Also far too long.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
I loved it on many levels but I recognise that other people didn't. I'd like him to write two versions in future and we could publish the simple one linked to the full version.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
Next time you get one like that send it to me and I’ll turn it into ‘Economist House Style’ for you. It’ll finish up 2000 words max and perfectly comprehensible to the ‘educated general reader’.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
We have plenty of those tho. That's simple enough. That one was a bit special tho.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
The Economist regularly has to explain comparative advantage (much harder conceptually) to the ‘educated general reader’. The ideas here are not particularly complex and the job could be done in clear, comprehensible prose.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
Yes, of course it could. There's nothing easier than clear, comprehensible prose.
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We can all do that. I can do that. I can't do what A. Jay did but I can love it and want him to do more of it. Even if it won't reach a wide audience and there has to be two versions, I hope he'll keep doing it & link it to a simple description.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
That you can’t produce word salad like that speaks well of you as a writer. I probably could because I have a flair for parody, but I wouldn’t want to.
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Well, we'll have to agree to disagree about that. But it doesn't matter much. Nothing more pointless than arguing about things that give others aesthetic pleasure. We can just read something else.
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