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What's with this person's writing style? I've never seen so many literary tics in one place. "In short", 14 usages. Almost every sentence starts with a preposit

by Kluny 9y ago

What's with this person's writing style? I've never seen so many literary tics in one place. "In short", 14 usages. Almost every sentence starts with a prepositional phrase like "In fact...", "Yet...", "However..." Confusing sentence structure like "How would have the net looked like?" It's so irritating to read.

Koshkin 9y ago
I think such style has legitimate uses; yet, it can also be used to give text an appearance of coherence where there is little or none. (Otherwise, it's just noise, like in the preceding sentence.)
appleiigs 9y ago
E-book writer... should explain his style. Here's a TLDR summary: - Google huge, DDG tiny. - Gabriel Weinberg serial startups all failed until he sold one for $10MM, which allowed him to do and focus on DDG. - Privacy a big deal these days and DDG markets towards that. - DDG makes money from keyword advertising and affiliate revenue. - You too can profit from something!
- roryisok 9y ago
  How much is $10MM? Like, a million million? Or is a millimeter thickness of dollars?
  - dx034 9y ago
    No, it's a thousand thousand (roman numeral). In finance, using MM and MMM is quite common (although bn is often preferred over MMM).
    - appleiigs 9y ago
      yeah, I am in finance. At the bank I used to work at we'd use $1M for $1,000 and not allowed to use $1K.
      - roryisok 9y ago
        That seems like a misunderstanding waiting to happen. $10M is 10,000,000 to me but only 10,000 if you work in finance??
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jnmandal 9y ago
He also used the word "Solopreneur"
- superasn 9y ago
  Am I missing something regarding not using this word?
  - roryokane 9y ago
    It's the first time I've heard that word. I can guess that it's supposed to mean "solo entrepreneur", but it's a silly-sounding word to me. Basically, it's slang, which is unusual in a long article such as this.
    - superasn 9y ago
      It's being used since 1990s as per Oxford dictionary[1]. I asked because I thought it's one of the words which has become uncool to use. [1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur
britishbanana 9y ago
Seriously... grammatical errors everywhere and some of the sentences aren't even complete. I got halfway through before I gave up. It kind of reads like an essay from a middle schooler trying to imitate the way they think smart people talk.
jccalhoun 9y ago
I am glad I'm not the only one. It reads just like terrible undergrad papers I have to read because it is just simple sentence after simple sentence. I got as far as "That is why I decided to cover it in its utmost details" in the forth paragraph before I gave up.
Torwald 9y ago
I would say it is due to him not being a native speaker; just guessing tho.

by Kluny 9y ago

Koshkin 9y ago

I think such style has legitimate uses; yet, it can also be used to give text an appearance of coherence where there is little or none. (Otherwise, it's just noise, like in the preceding sentence.)

appleiigs 9y ago

E-book writer... should explain his style. Here's a TLDR summary: - Google huge, DDG tiny. - Gabriel Weinberg serial startups all failed until he sold one for $10MM, which allowed him to do and focus on DDG. - Privacy a big deal these days and DDG markets towards that. - DDG makes money from keyword advertising and affiliate revenue. - You too can profit from something!

roryisok 9y ago
How much is $10MM? Like, a million million? Or is a millimeter thickness of dollars?
- dx034 9y ago
  No, it's a thousand thousand (roman numeral). In finance, using MM and MMM is quite common (although bn is often preferred over MMM).
  - appleiigs 9y ago
    yeah, I am in finance. At the bank I used to work at we'd use $1M for $1,000 and not allowed to use $1K.
    - roryisok 9y ago
      That seems like a misunderstanding waiting to happen. $10M is 10,000,000 to me but only 10,000 if you work in finance??
- deleted 9y ago
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jnmandal 9y ago

He also used the word "Solopreneur"

superasn 9y ago
Am I missing something regarding not using this word?
- roryokane 9y ago
  It's the first time I've heard that word. I can guess that it's supposed to mean "solo entrepreneur", but it's a silly-sounding word to me. Basically, it's slang, which is unusual in a long article such as this.
  - superasn 9y ago
    It's being used since 1990s as per Oxford dictionary[1]. I asked because I thought it's one of the words which has become uncool to use. [1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur

britishbanana 9y ago

Seriously... grammatical errors everywhere and some of the sentences aren't even complete. I got halfway through before I gave up. It kind of reads like an essay from a middle schooler trying to imitate the way they think smart people talk.

jccalhoun 9y ago

I am glad I'm not the only one. It reads just like terrible undergrad papers I have to read because it is just simple sentence after simple sentence. I got as far as "That is why I decided to cover it in its utmost details" in the forth paragraph before I gave up.

Torwald 9y ago

I would say it is due to him not being a native speaker; just guessing tho.