: Re: What does it mean when someone says "it doesn't sound very natural"? I hear this pretty often when I say/write something, be it in text messages or emails or on any social media/forums. What

@Goswami879

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An important part of writing well is understanding your audience and using the words that will have the desired effect on them.

If you're writing text messages to a sixteen year old, 'natural' language is going to be a lot more casual and text-speak-ish than if you were writing them to someone unused to the medium and more practised at long-form writing.

Similarly, the level of diction on a writers' forum is probably higher than the level on, say, a forum dedicated to a pop group or celebrity popular with uneducated people.

"Natural" essentially means saying things in the way people expect to hear them. It's not necessarily a positive, but if you want to draw attention to your content rather than your manner of speaking, try to read how others post/write in that forum and imitate it.

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