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Nope, not just you. I suspect it's because most readers are afraid of fractions.
by dajohnson89 11y ago
Nope, not just you. I suspect it's because most readers are afraid of fractions.
- nostrademons 11y agoIt's because of parallelism. Not the computing kind, but the writing kind. Sentence constructions like "AMP pages load four times faster and use one-eighth the data" or "AMP pages have one fourth the latency and eight times better data compression" read awkwardly; try reading them aloud, vs. the original sentence. You're taught in writing class to use equivalent constructions for all clauses within a sentence. It's much like the stylistic rule in programming languages to not mix camelCase and snake_case in the same file.
- dajohnson89 11y agoI get what you're saying, but FWIW I honestly have no problem with the non-parallel sentence constructions in your example. It's a technical article. I want a high amount of information in a concise and clear package.