(E.g. If I meant "Never pay to acquire customers" I would have said that instead. It's much more powerful.)
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yet almost every "great writer" also had a "great editor"...
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No great writer before about 200 years ago did, and many since haven't.
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Do you mean "Good writing is incompressible."?
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1. That's extremely reductive. 2. That's not what you meant.
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@paulg It's been my privilege to edit fine writers. The finest insist on edits.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not necessarily what they meant, but possible what they would have meant if they had thought of it. Happens to me a lot...
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(In particular, I often find myself saying several specific things, then someone points out a generalization which I agree with.)
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Many people are well-served by a good editor.
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I find that I need people to tighten up my ideas more than I need people to tighten up my English.
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@paulg: Unless someone is a bad writer, a shorter version of something they said is not what they meant.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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but nearly everyone is a bad writer (but maybe most writing is by good writers?)
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The good writer means what they wrote, and nothing shorter.
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@BenedictEvans Or put another way: Abbreviating well written work will change the meaning.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr IOW you are saying... oh, I shouldn't, right? ;-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Seeing things like "Elon Musk Thinks That Our Existence Is Someone Else’s Video Game" today certainly illustrates this point.
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true. but most people are bad writers. present company excluded.
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