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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 12

    Paul Graham Retweeted Tim Urban

    Fascinatingly disgusting: Tim Urban rewrites the first two paragraphs of "Write Simply" (http://paulgraham.com/simply.html ).https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1370188105010020354 …

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    Tim UrbanVerified account @waitbutwhy
    Replying to @paulg
    Here’s my attempt: pic.twitter.com/MvFCgpwEbd
    1:06 AM - 12 Mar 2021
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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 12

        Paul Graham Retweeted Tim Urban

        Incidentally, just so everyone understands, I'm not making fun of Tim Urban by calling this fascinatingly disgusting. He's deliberately trying to write badly, to show how not to do it.https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1370114273272344577 …

        Paul Graham added,

        Tim UrbanVerified account @waitbutwhy
        Replying to @paulg
        It would be fun if you wrote a second version of the same essay using non-simple writing to show how much worse it is.
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      1. StolenMoments‏ @pick_vic Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        "Lexicon" ?

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      1. Kavir | indiacovidresources.in‏ @kavirkaycee Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        I love how, @waitbutwhy used commas, to drive home the point, that commas make reading, hard.

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      1. cammiltaank‏ @cammiltaank Mar 12
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        How ironic this is.

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      1. Hodl My Beer‏ @Hodl_My_Beer Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        Bet the next paragraph mentions gauge theory

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      1. R.W. Pointer‏ @richardpointer Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        Try reading Saskia Sassen. It is like reading with mud in your eyes. I am sure she is saying something but how it got published is beyond me.

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      1. Jedd Campbell‏ @jeddacoder Mar 12
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        The mental resistance on his version is significant 😶

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      2. James Cole‏ @jamesrcole Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        I wonder if this kind of thing would be good for teaching simple writing? Show examples of ‘complex’ early versions and then steps taken to simplify them.

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      3. HOT TOWN‏ @hot_town Mar 12
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        https://twitter.com/hot_town/status/1370324880831418369 …

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        This is great! I'm going to show this to students in my Writing 1000 class
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      1. Henning Sanden‏ @henningsanden Mar 12
        Replying to @paulg

        The rewritten text is how I was taught to write in school. Took me years to unlearn it. I was taught to make the language advanced, not about communicating ideas.

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