Being unreadable in 2015 is a kind of intellectual dishonesty. A defense against being read by dissenters when access is no longer a barrier
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I mean deliberately using unreadability as a defense. Obfuscation. In my case, ribbonfarm at least is pure laziness.
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maybe a good exercise for bloggers would be to go over your own work and sum up every post in a tweet.
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False. Unreadable to who? Every expression implies an audience, and every audience is limited in some way.
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. I mean unreadability as a consciously deployed defensive strategy, as with patent lawyers. Much more common than people think
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It's primarily experimental thinking I'm writing up 90% for my own benefit. I rarely try to think about why others read
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@wargfranklin To avoid the clustering of idiots effect, I don't need to obscure, just neglect simplification.
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@wargfranklin one of my favorite essays. Also see "On Smarm" that it inspired.
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Twain on writing a short letter comes to mind, also Jane Austin - academic writing so last century ;)
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probably best Jane Austen quote: 'I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible...



