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> That formatting is to add in small pauses But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?

by Vinnl 7y ago

Dylan16807 7y ago
Are you arguing that, or offering it as a potential argument? § That's not what mrep claimed made it hard to read. They said it was hard to trace lines. § And there are other ways of adding pauses, on top of those pauses not being very necessary in the first place. I could do without them just fine. § More generally, as long as a big paragraph is focused on one topic, and nobody is doing a point-by-point reply, it works just fine.
- Vinnl 7y ago
  I am arguing that, and it's also how I read mrep's comment: it's a wall of text with no clear pauses, making it hard to read. And if those §'s are your other ways of adding pauses, then those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses for most readers, including me: we're not trained to read those characters as pauses. Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future. But good for you that you're not one of those people, I guess.
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    > those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses Pretend I said "indicator of separation" instead of "pause" then. > Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future. By talking about "other ways" to mark a logical separation, I think you're on a completely different argument than mrep. mrep is saying that it's physically hard to track the lines when reading, which is entirely a function of line length and spacing. mrep's problems would be solved if I started adding newlines in the middle of sentences, even though that would make things worse in terms of subdividing into coherent paragraphs.
    - Vinnl 7y ago
      Then I think we have a different interpretation of mrep's point. (Where my interpretation has going for it that mrep themselves isn't even doing what you're saying they want.)

> That formatting is to add in small pauses But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?

by Vinnl 7y ago

> That formatting is to add in small pauses But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?

Dylan16807 7y ago

Are you arguing that, or offering it as a potential argument? § That's not what mrep claimed made it hard to read. They said it was hard to trace lines. § And there are other ways of adding pauses, on top of those pauses not being very necessary in the first place. I could do without them just fine. § More generally, as long as a big paragraph is focused on one topic, and nobody is doing a point-by-point reply, it works just fine.

Vinnl 7y ago
I am arguing that, and it's also how I read mrep's comment: it's a wall of text with no clear pauses, making it hard to read. And if those §'s are your other ways of adding pauses, then those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses for most readers, including me: we're not trained to read those characters as pauses. Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future. But good for you that you're not one of those people, I guess.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  > those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses Pretend I said "indicator of separation" instead of "pause" then. > Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future. By talking about "other ways" to mark a logical separation, I think you're on a completely different argument than mrep. mrep is saying that it's physically hard to track the lines when reading, which is entirely a function of line length and spacing. mrep's problems would be solved if I started adding newlines in the middle of sentences, even though that would make things worse in terms of subdividing into coherent paragraphs.
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    Then I think we have a different interpretation of mrep's point. (Where my interpretation has going for it that mrep themselves isn't even doing what you're saying they want.)