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The Sense of Style

Steven Pinker

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Paul Bloom loved it
Steven Pinker goes deep, showing how understanding the science of memory, social understanding, and syntactic structure can really pay off in making one a better writer.

on smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net · 13 May 2024

Tyler Cipriani liked it
Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.

on tylercipriani.com · 7 Jun 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.