“It’s hard to be right without sounding right.”
No. It’s hard to sound right even when you are. And if you don’t, you might as well be wrong.
No. It’s hard to sound right even when you are. And if you don’t, you might as well be wrong.
Communication is very hard - we have to first translate some scattered notions into a coherent idea, then find the right words to express that idea, then the people receiving them have to understand those words, translate them into their scattered ideas. And then do the same in the other direction.
The act of writing - and especially editing - helps us refine the ideas and find the words to best express them, and especially in a way that they are to have the intended effect on others.
I'm sure this essay has some good ideas at its core, but I don't think it had nearly enough editing...