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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Oct 2016

      When I was younger I'd have said that how you write and what you say were as independent as shape and color. But that's not true.

      11 replies 9 retweets 57 likes
    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Oct 2016
      Replying to @paulg

      I can imitate Gibbon's style of writing, but if I do it makes me say different things.

      3 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Oct 2016
      Replying to @paulg

      And if different writing styles make you say different things, that raises interesting questions.

      5 replies 3 retweets 19 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Oct 2016

      Are there styles that make you smarter, or more honest? Because if so you should consciously seek them out.

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        2. Fred Simmons‏ @fsimmons 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          In college, I had a prof tell me to write like an academic. Emulate the style of course material. Applying that elsewhere works too.

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @fsimmons

          I did that without anyone telling me to, and the results were not good.

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        4. Fred Simmons‏ @fsimmons 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          Simplified: everything has a language and voice. Academics, business, whatever. Learn to write in it.

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        5. Fred Simmons‏ @fsimmons 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @fsimmons @paulg

          might help that I wasn't a CE major

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        6. Keegan Leitz‏ @kjleitz 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @fsimmons @paulg

          as a result, civil engineers sound a lot like a mashup of building codes and matlab

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        2. Levy Paul-emmanuel‏ @levype 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          not only styles, language too. I don't think the same way in English and in French. Languages and styles create structure.

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        1. Stijn Masschelein‏ @SMasschelein 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          you should have a look at ‘sense of style’ by @sapinker

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        1. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 21 Oct 2016
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          I would strongly urge imitating Bertrand Russell. Graceful, intelligent, direct. http://bit.ly/1SGgTd0  / http://bit.ly/2etCTuO 

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        1. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 21 Oct 2016
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          George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" examines (very cogently & elegantly) the moral consequences of style in writing.

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        1. Xavier Faure‏ @XFaure 21 Oct 2016
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          Or languages? I've long felt that some thoughts are more easily articulated in English than in French (and vice versa)

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        2. anomalyuk‏ @anomalyuk 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          ah, but if they simultaneously make you less persuasive and popular, what then?

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        3. David Fendrich‏ @fnedrik 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @anomalyuk @paulg

          Then the two criteria form a Pareto front of optimal choices for different occasions.

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        2. Sebastian Ruder‏ @seb_ruder 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          Oh, this is interesting. Is anyone aware if people have looked at what impact changing one's style might have?

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        3. Nick Lothian‏ @nlothian 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @seb_ruder

          .@seb_ruder @paulg the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics is about this. Eg https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-strongest-evidence-for-and-against-the-Sapir-Whorf-hypothesis/answer/Chrys-Jordan?srid=k …

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        4. Sebastian Ruder‏ @seb_ruder 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @nlothian @paulg

          Good point. I've always thought of Sapir-Whorf as only concerning language; SW pertains to thought -- is writing different?

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        1. Tim  💥‏ @Tim0cho 21 Oct 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          this is why companies & orgs should try to get off of internal email comms ASAP: no one needs to be uber formal when working together

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        1. joannes‏ @jan359180 21 Oct 2016
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          extremes only exist because the dark side of supposed "GOOD" never caught light!

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        1. Don Cruse‏ @doncruse 21 Oct 2016
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          Check out “Clear and Simple as the Truth” about what the authors call classic style. https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-Classic/dp/0691147434 …

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