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 …
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"Lexicon" ?
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I love how,
@waitbutwhy used commas, to drive home the point, that commas make reading, hard.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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How ironic this is.
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Bet the next paragraph mentions gauge theory
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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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The mental resistance on his version is significant
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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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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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