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local anon · 2mo

I hope this doesn't come across as weird but the way you structure your sentences is very eloquent and to the point. Do you write? And so you happen to have any tips to anyone who would want to improve their expression? It is extremely admirable!

How incredibly kind of you to say, 'eloquent' isn't something I hear often so thank you very much.

But to answer your question, I don't write prose. But I am very prolific at writing arguments/essays. I'm an explainer of ideas because of the fact I'm so direct and pragmatic in my communication, so I make a better teacher or debater than I do a novelist or author.

I don't know if I have any tips for style of writing because it's not something I put a lot of thought into, it's really just how I talk and how I organize my thoughts. So to that end I can at least tell you the various factors that make me write the way I do:

  • I'm extremely autistic, so 'blunt' is my only gear

  • I think also because I'm extremely autistic, throughout my entire life I was often told I don't understand things or that it's my fault for being misread/misunderstood quite often. It still happens very often. I used to have a more off-the-cuff style of writing (and I guess if we chat one-on-one I definitely still do) but when speaking online I go out of my way to articulate my ideas as clearly and fully as I possibly can. (I think tonally this just makes my sense of humor seem more dry/deadpan than it already was though)

  • English is technically my second language. Despite not speaking it anymore, my primary language was French, so the cadence of how my sentences are constructed have always carried over. I feel like this is pretty obvious if you know to look for it.

  • I've always been extremely linguistically inclined. Picking up languages has always been really easy for me, and I've always been obsessed with what gets lost in translation and the nuances of colloquialism.

  • my father told me when I was young that a good teacher is able to explain a college-level concept to a 5 year old and the 5 year old will understand it. for whatever reason, that imprinted on me, so I always try to simplify my ideas as much as I can manage so that the meaning of what I say is accessible. I think this is also entirely why I'm extremely good at teaching and independent self-study.

  • I grew up as an ardent reader. When I was a kid (single digits) I often read above my reading level by a lot, and throughout highschool I often would read like 4-5 books a week to completion. I don't read as much anymore because I think my standards have gotten too high and I have more fun indulging in working on our stories, but consuming so much literature (especially foreign-written or classical literature) most definitely had something to do with it

  • also, I really like shakespeare lol

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