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The Text United Blog
Company blog · textunited.com/blogbusinesswriting
The Text United Blog is the company blog at textunited.com, writing about business and writing. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Free plugin: Shorten text to be a faster writer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post about shortening text by removing redundant words. One commenter cites its text-shortening tool in a thread on academic writing complexity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
TextUnited is the language layer under your content systems: governed terminology, quality evidence on every translation, AI under human control. Your language data stays yours.
Most-linked posts?
- Free plugin: Shorten text to be a faster writer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-27
What Hacker News says?
There are tools to remove redundant verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. I like this tool: https://www.textunited.com/blog/shorten-text-to-be-a-faster-... HemingwayApp is also neat, if a little opinionated about what should be edited out. Some phrases only sound right in certain contexts, and I never liked that about academic papers, because they presume an ivory tower readership when infact their target audience could b…
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