You can never fully correct misrepresentations, because lies spread faster than the truth. "No, what I said was" just doesn't have the virality of "Prominent person says outrageous thing."
Good writing is concise. It's possible to say things concisely in a way that everyone can understand, but not in a way that leaves no room for people to misrepresent you. So if you write well about controversial topics, you have to resign yourself to being misrepresented.
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tweets are almost always "simpler"
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I recently finished off 3 of his books and several essays. His style is too personal to be concise. He writes as he speaks, forever offering an invitation to sit opposite him and listen. I think he is an indispensable writer, though I try not to borrow from him.
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Mathematicians have devised concise means of expression that leave no room for people to misrepresent statements made using them. Perhaps it is wrong to describe any of those statements as controversial. But some of them, at least, are (initially) very surprising and unexpected.
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Wow, so you’re saying it is okay to confuse people? (With props to Dilbert)
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Do you have any plans on writing essays again? Loved them. Timeless and a clear example of concise writing.
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Yet "In belaboring to be concise, I become obscure." — Horace
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