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walrus01yesterday at 11:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Excessively precise word choice does not result in something that looks like content written by, or palatable to humans. It looks like you gave a high school 12 grade student a science paper and told them to apply a thesaurus to at least one word in every sentence and replace it with something else.


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LoganDarkyesterday at 11:27 PM

There is a difference between precise word choice and concise word choice. You can be precisely accessible the same as you can be concisely terse.