Actually, you a right, I regret making the first point. For some reason I felt like I should refute every point you made and I was unfair on you in this one. It does take me embarrassingly long to write concisely but it’s not because of references to obscure stuff of the kind you talk about. It’s mostly because I need to weave out bad arguments (like that one in my comment), and because I change the structure of an article over ten times which is a bad habit. Also because I’m generally slow at formulating sentences, especially in English (which is my second language). This is rather unique to me but it is true that writting clearly and efficiently is a skill and not everyone has it.
I do think you make some good points in your post, I didn’t downvote it. I think that I kind of attacked you when in my mind I was defending myself from the feeling of remorse about spending months of writting things that no one might read. I apologize for that. Ironically, I regret not spending more time on my comment.
You write better than most natives I’ve had the misfortune of reading!
This talk is probably the most efficient and entertaining way to get better at writing concisely and entertainingly, given by Harvard linguist Stephen Pinker:
Actually, you a right, I regret making the first point. For some reason I felt like I should refute every point you made and I was unfair on you in this one. It does take me embarrassingly long to write concisely but it’s not because of references to obscure stuff of the kind you talk about. It’s mostly because I need to weave out bad arguments (like that one in my comment), and because I change the structure of an article over ten times which is a bad habit. Also because I’m generally slow at formulating sentences, especially in English (which is my second language). This is rather unique to me but it is true that writting clearly and efficiently is a skill and not everyone has it.
I do think you make some good points in your post, I didn’t downvote it. I think that I kind of attacked you when in my mind I was defending myself from the feeling of remorse about spending months of writting things that no one might read. I apologize for that. Ironically, I regret not spending more time on my comment.
You write better than most natives I’ve had the misfortune of reading!
This talk is probably the most efficient and entertaining way to get better at writing concisely and entertainingly, given by Harvard linguist Stephen Pinker: