@paulg famously recommends to write simply. I wonder if that recommendation might change as the value of having your tweets be indecipherable to a particular audience grows
Tweets are an extreme case for sure. But there have always been things one had to tiptoe around, even in essays. E.g. this was written in 2004, before Twitter existed. http://paulgraham.com/say.html
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Orwell said it well, "A good phrase is like a windowpane". A windowpane gets you to see through (the message) instead of attraction attention to itself. He was critical of postmodernism writing which optimises for obscurity and not on clarity.
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My advice to write as simply as possible implicitly assumes you actually want everyone to be able to understand you. It's similar to the definition of a gentleman as a man who never unintentionally offends anyone. You should never unintentionally confuse the reader.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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True that What You Can’t Say selects its own audience by remaining almost entirely abstract. The life cycle of that essay might have been quite different if it gave lots of examples
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