michaelcurzi comments on Improving My Writing Style - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 12 October 2011 01:45:10AM *  6 points [-]

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Comment author: orthonormal 14 October 2011 11:00:11PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the links- each of them is helpful.

The first one helped me recognize that my post writing is too optimized for coming across as high-status (too much jargon, esoteric vocabulary and wordplay) as compared to communicating simply. The second one is just good to remember, and the third is completely awesome.