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This. Those phrases are useful for distinguishing between “I’m giving new information” vs “I’m starting from what I expect to be common knowledge”. And yes, it
by SilasX 6y ago
This. Those phrases are useful for distinguishing between “I’m giving new information” vs “I’m starting from what I expect to be common knowledge”.
And yes, it’s possible to abuse such phrases but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their place.
- latexr 6y agoThe comment wasn’t on those types of phrases, but on that phrase in particular. There are better (more positive, don’t lose significance) ways to convey that information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897649
- rimliu 6y agoHonestly, your comments so far were the most negative thing I saw in all this.