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Ben Strauss's avatar

Wow! Such pure Noah Smith thought! Thank you!

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Christian Saether's avatar

Good stuff, thanks. As primarily a writer of occasionally cogent emails I wish I had your apparent talent for leaving stuff out without doing much editing. My initial cut almost always rambles and it is on my own review I see that I might actually have a valid point of view in there somewhere. So then chopping away at it to reveal said argument is extremely valuable. More power to you if you write close to a finished draft the first time!

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