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I disagree, this is not clean writing. This reads like someone who swallowed a thesaurus to pad out their word count, and didn't really understand half the word
by rndmio 9y ago
I disagree, this is not clean writing. This reads like someone who swallowed a thesaurus to pad out their word count, and didn't really understand half the words they decided to use. Not to mention three number of poorly constructed sentences. I also couldn't get past the first few paragraphs as it so grated.
- eropple 9y agoI mean, we can workshop this if you're going to bring examples, but I'll be real with you: more often than not the charge of "swallowed a thesaurus" tends to come from folks who don't read all that much (and I do mean actually read, not read tech blogs). So, put up: what words did the author not "really understand"?
- danielvf 9y agoI agree with both of you. One one hand, the writer does understand the words they are using and uses them correctly. On the other hand the author clearly eschews words less than nine characters in length. Random grab from middle of article: "focusing too intently on quantifiable outcomes obscures what the essence of education, in prison or otherwise, is truly about."
- eropple 9y agoIn my neck of the woods, that's a reasonable phrase with words that have particular context to them that their synonyms don't.