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> "I had trouble reading the whole article on mobile" I had trouble reading it period. It was overflowing with superfluous flowery prose, in other words[1], it
by morganvachon 9y ago
> "I had trouble reading the whole article on mobile"
I had trouble reading it period. It was overflowing with superfluous flowery prose, in other words[1], it was too wordsmith-y for its own good. It's a HuffPost piece about the advantages of buying glasses online in 2017, it doesn't have to sound like a tabloid magazine article from 1896 to draw in the modern reader.
[1] It was at a point early in the article where the author felt the need to say "in other words" and provide a dumbed down version of his previous sentence that I decided to stop reading for my own sanity. Next time, leave the thesaurus on the shelf please.
- StavrosK 9y agoNot only that, but his "synonyms" weren't really. A nose isn't a proboscis, and "bespectacled avoidance" isn't avoidance of wearing glasses, it's an avoidance that is, itself wearing glasses. Absurd.