shokwave comments on Self-Congratulatory Rationalism - Less Wrong

51 Post author: ChrisHallquist 01 March 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: shokwave 03 March 2014 05:16:35AM 5 points [-]

so they round me off to the nearest cliche

I have found great value in re-reading my posts looking for possible similar-sounding cliches, and re-writing to make the post deliberately inconsistent with those.

For example, the previous sentence could be rounded off to the cliche "Avoid cliches in your writing". I tried to avoid that possible interpretation by including "deliberately inconsistent".

Comment author: RobinZ 23 April 2014 03:34:23PM 0 points [-]

I like it - do you know if it works in face-to-face conversations?