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title: Contractions Increase Mental Effort Required to Read
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date: 2022-06-07
link: https://medium.com/@joanne.schofield/using-contractions-could-be-making-your-writing-inaccessible-4034bb3cd76a
cited: Joanne Schofield

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This was news to me, yet I do struggle to read, for example, Martin Lewis' MSE website because of the tone and contractions used heavily.

> Use ‘do not’, ‘can not’, ‘would not’ and so on instead of ‘don’t’, ‘can’t’ and ‘wouldn’t’ because some people rely on reading the ‘not’ to understand what is being said.