army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes July 2012 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: RobertLumley 04 July 2012 12:29AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 July 2012 01:06:11AM 3 points [-]

(Similarly "legible" instead of "readable", although "readable" seems to be increasingly accepted these days.)

I've seen a distinction being made between “legible” applying to typography etc. and “readable” applying to grammar etc., so that a über-complicated technical text typeset in LaTeX would be legible but not readable, and a story for children written in an awful handwriting would be readable but not legible.