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tim cook's recent email to jim cramer scores at about the 12th-grade reading level, maybe 12th-and-a-semester. satya nadella's first email to microsoft employees is written at an 8th-grade level 
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well yeah anyone who spend 1100 words saying hi should be sent back a few grades
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Aug 27, 2015 04:31
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Aug 27, 2015 04:43
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I read penguin classucs and also readers digest. Please use the cool proggy on a sunder post I bet it's worse
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Aug 27, 2015 09:37
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Tim is out of touch with real americans
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Tim had to dumb it down because he's talking to analysts and the media.
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on the other hand stebe talked and wrote like a 4th grader.
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The Management posted:on the other hand stebe talked and wrote like a 4th grader. here's his 'thoughts on flash' letter  jobs' resignation letter  Smythe posted:I read penguin classucs and also readers digest. Please use the cool proggy on a sunder post I bet it's worse a post of his on google i/o 
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when it comes to Serious Writing i like to keep it simple, but sometimes i wonder if that simplicity sounds like retardation i don't really like incomplete sentences in body copy and punctuation. used for. emphasis.
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Aug 27, 2015 18:04
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duTrieux. posted:here's his 'thoughts on flash' letter cool, and thanks. i think copy editors prolly dictate reading lvl of big company ppls letters tho. or style guide ppl? do big companies have that? branding boss who goes thru all outgoing things?
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Aug 27, 2015 18:08
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oh yeah. if a company has their poo poo together there are robust style guides that include rules for visuals, audio, and text. whether email and letters from c-level execs get sent to branding depends on the company culture, though. it usually only happens for material that's explicitly meant for a retail/consumer audience. the only one of the sampled emails and letters that i would suspect of being written with a reading level in mind would be satya's first email to employees. even then, it's probably more of a case of general CEO-speak than something engineered
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Aug 27, 2015 18:16
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i'm just using word for these, btw. you turn on 'readability statistics' in the proofing options, and then run the spell/grammar-check with f7
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Aug 27, 2015 18:17
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yeah, it's what communications departments are paid to do ceo may or may not type something out, marcom looks over it, ceo may or may not then review and sign off on it. ceo then internalizes and regurgitates it constantly until the media story is reworked next quarter
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sometimes i paste into hemingway before finalizing but it's actually kinda lovely and following it too much really makes everything bland and stupid
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Aug 27, 2015 18:25
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Triglav posted:sometimes i paste into hemingway before finalizing but it's actually kinda lovely and following it too much really makes everything bland and stupid interesting
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Triglav posted:sometimes i paste into hemingway before finalizing but it's actually kinda lovely and following it too much really makes everything bland and stupid variety in diction is fundafuckingmental if you want to keep people engaged.
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Aug 27, 2015 18:33
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duTrieux. posted:oh yeah. if a company has their poo poo together there are robust style guides that include rules for visuals, audio, and text. whether email and letters from c-level execs get sent to branding depends on the company culture, though. it usually only happens for material that's explicitly meant for a retail/consumer audience. thank you for your insight into this coal topic
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how i write more good. do i need to read, steal, and throw away what sucks or what
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Aug 27, 2015 18:48
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Triglav posted:how i write more good. do i need to read, steal, and throw away what sucks or what read the newspaper every day
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Smythe posted:read the newspaper every day ok rotor
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Triglav posted:how i write more good. do i need to read, steal, and throw away what sucks or what read stuff. mimic what you like. if you've written a long or complex paragraph, make the next paragraph short and assertive. a little bit of parallel construction. passive voice sometimes (it's not entirely verboten). strangle a hobo to viscerally understand life and death. use an occasional semicolon.
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Triglav posted:sometimes i paste into hemingway before finalizing but it's actually kinda lovely and following it too much really makes everything bland and stupid it stops recognising passive voice if u put 2 spaces between the words lol why Smythe posted:read the newspaper every day (most) newspapres are trash now 
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bobbilljim posted:(most) newspapres are trash now You're meant to read then BEFORE throwing them away
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