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big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

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Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

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    Simplified writing is good writing.

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      Simple = good

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        ez = 👍

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      i don’t bother to simplify it even though i probably should since people hate it so much they try to take their anger out on me.

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        I don’t think you have any need to simplify, but some more punctuation would definitely help with the readability of your comment

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          americans & proper grammar/punctuation don’t mix. lol

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      Not talking about simplified writing.

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        What are you talking about then

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          Constraining your topic

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        It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, using plain language doesn’t mean you’re dumbing it down. It makes it easier to read and understand what you’re trying to say. You can take corporate jargon as the opposite of this. It can be vague, different people will have different definitions of certain words.

        https://www.grammarly.com/blog/writing-techniques/plain-language/

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          I just said that I don’t mean plainer language.

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            You can talk about the most complex topics with people as long as you know how to explain them in an easily digestible form. If you look at the titles of many scientific studies they will have long and convoluted titles that sound impressive, but in actuality could be refined into something much shorter and easier to understand.

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              That is an opinion that I used to share. No more.

              I have offered a dozen strange ideas here. Not difficult or complex, just strange. They are not received well.

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                I read some of your post titles and there’s definitely room to improve the simplicity of what you’re trying to say.

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