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The language industry has a long tradition in the pursuit of correctness, based on manually drafted rules. However, the end goal has always been communicative efficiency, which is something that ca...
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System
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2019-12-08T05:05:19Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Smokey
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2019-12-08T05:05:19Z (over 4 years ago)
The language industry has a long tradition in the pursuit of correctness, based on manually drafted rules. However, the end goal has always been communicative efficiency, which is something that can now be addressed directly using empirical methods. Since there are systematic conflicts between rules and efficiency (or between normative and empirical rules), what kind of evidence would it take to convince writers to prefer efficiency to correctness?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2016-02-25T14:00:13Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 2