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The quantity and quality of grammatical errors in the piece were finely calibrated to keep me reading it to the end. A curious effect.
by baltimore 10y ago
The quantity and quality of grammatical errors in the piece were finely calibrated to keep me reading it to the end. A curious effect.
- boxy_brown 10y agoThe writer is a non-native English speaker.
- rodionos 10y agoKudos if that's the case. An essay on soft skills is probably the most difficult genre to master for a non-native speaker, more so for a programmer. I'm ok with the piece, as long as there was effort involved and it's better than Google Translate.
- simonw 10y agoI've been reading antirez's writing for a long time and he's been consistently getting stronger as a writer of English. I think this is some of his best writing yet in terms of grammar and use of the language.
- antirez 10y agoHaha :-) Please point me to the worst ones and I'll fix. Re-reading again btw.
- spydum 10y agoNah, just remind them you made a design decision to focus on the meaning, and not the grammar, which let you write the post 10x faster ;)
- antirez 10y agoThat's a valid point! A quality of my poor english is that I write it at the same speed I write Italian. This blog post took me 10-20 minutes at max to write, even if the concepts I elaborated for much longer time when thinking/talking about these issues with people.
- baltimore 10y agoJust a few to get you going: "can imagine one good at doing its work": "its" → "[his|her|their]" "who says there is no such a thing as the 10x programmer, who says it actually does not just exist": "who says" → "some say" (At this point I guessed, wrongly, that your native language might be Russian) "a lot less efforts" → "a lot less effort" "to do a much better work" → "to do much better work" "graduated programmers" → "programmers with graduate degrees" Just a little help from one non-native English speaker to another
- lessclue 10y agoAntirez is not a native English speaker. That said, why did the grammatical errors keep you hooked?
- baltimore 10y agoNeither am I. Maybe that's one reason.