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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Jan 2019
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    ~12 years ago when I started blogging, a popular piece of advice was to use straightforward, non-idiomatic language for SEO. I hated it and ignored it since I didn’t want to write for machines. But now the same advice sounds good, to reach global audiences via machine translation

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      1. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 15 Jan 2019
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        Kapuściński was a master at portable prose. I've read his stuff in three languages and you'd never know it wasn't written in any of them.

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      1. Nemo‏ @temirov 15 Jan 2019
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        The global audience may not like being summoned in existence through boring mechanical language

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      1. Francesca Pallopides‏ @FPallopides 15 Jan 2019
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        2000: "Write clearly & simply so that everyone, including those without an academic background, can profit from your writing." 2010: "Write clearly & simply so that everyone, including bots, can profit from your writing." 2020:

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      1. David Millsaps‏ @eyevariety 15 Jan 2019
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        Even then that advice was based on writing for what the user wanted. What they searched for. I do like the ML take though.

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        Well as the translation accuracy increases even that advice will loose prominence but in the mean time you might loose your voice.

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        in fact, it makes me think that a style guide should be it's whole own blog post/website. Maybe something to collab on!

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      1. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 15 Jan 2019
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        You have no idea how much I agonized over jokes in Lauren Ipsum, trying at least to hew to Latingreek roots so as to have a chance of them transporting well.

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      1. Maker‏ @aesop20051 15 Jan 2019
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        这确实是个非常好的写作习惯。有效的降低了沟通的壁垒。

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        Esperanza wins in the end!

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