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"If I said she's 'extra special,' that would refer to particular services and the reader knew what I meant," he said.
Mine started to become a list of facts with no explanatory detail because I was so immersed in it I assumed the reader knew as much as I did.
Saint-Ange's classic, most of the available books for serious students of French cooking were little more than a chef's shorthand notes for the various dishes; unless the reader knew beforehand how to make a white Sauce or poach a trout, or how to add egg yolks to a hot sauce without making it curdle, the book was not much help.
I suppose one problem is the decline of common multi-linguistic-ness − Pope could assume the reader knew the Horace, whereas the translator of a Flaubert Conte today can't assume that basic knowledge, which therefore adds a different moral problem". .
If the reader knew this going in then it might soften the disappointment, but there is nothing to indicate this is the first book in a series.
However, his prose was also peppered with the kind of troubling vitriol you might have seen on a Daily Express front page, ensuring the reader knew precisely which side of the political spectrum he sat on (somewhere between Nigel Farage and Enoch Powell).
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The reader knows how he feels.
The reader knows it is doomed.
Then the reader knows where the opinion is coming from.
By this point the reader knows what's coming.
7. If in doubt, assume the reader knows nothing.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com