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Have we arrived at the place where we have to choose one or the other? Because I choose option 3: where people do their jobs relatively well, with some amount o
by sixstringtheory 7y ago
Have we arrived at the place where we have to choose one or the other? Because I choose option 3: where people do their jobs relatively well, with some amount of professionalism (which I used to think was a necessary, but not sufficient, part of doing your job well).
- draw_down 7y agoWell, let's read each other charitably instead of doing this sort of thing, shall we? GP is not describing a binary choice but rather a set of priorities. A lot of what is called "good writing" is really just a collection of signifiers that don't have anything to do with expressing ideas clearly or succinctly. There are plenty of people who would die before ever writing "y'all" but would gladly take 7 paragraphs just to get to the fucking point. GP is describing a preference for clarity and succinctness over those signifiers.