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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?

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  • It has a clear storytelling purpose of having the reader eagerly wait to hear whom it was that he taught (who is this mysterious student?), and conveys the irony that something so seemingly everyday can be so important. In fact, this is the same irony explained in the first paragraph; the sentence reads as if it was the first paragraph with the blanks filled in.

    Optimizing every single sentence equally for efficiency makes dull writing, and if that’s what you want, you might want to use a summarizer.








  • In the memo, ahead of the campaign’s launch, executives grappled with whether to include public disclosures about “secondary” use – water used in generating the electricity to power its datacentres.

    They warned that full transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping AWS’s projections confidential, even as they feared that their advice could invite accusations of a cover-up. “Amazon hides its water consumption” was one negative headline the authors anticipated.

    Callaghan said efficiency savings have already been achieved and pointed out that other companies also don’t count secondary water use.

    Scientists balked at the selective disclosure and the choice not to include secondary use of water in the total.