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I just love how this gets progressively harder to read!

dvtrn 6y ago
It’s so hilariously and delightfully like Mark Twain to actually put readers through this and I chuckled once I realized what was going on
marcodiego 6y ago
Interesting.... as a Portuguese speaker, I'd say that it gets progressively easier to read. Note that portuguese has way more coherent writing than english.
- dathinab 6y ago
  While english was simplified quite a bit in the recent 100+ (probably more) years and is often seen as a "simple" language there are quite many languages which are much more coherent then english. E.g. recently there had been an article on hacker news about bilingual people which are fine in one language but have a writing-disorder in english. Likely due to it being less coherent.
  - bonoboTP 6y ago
    > E.g. recently there had been an article on hacker news about bilingual people which are fine in one language but have a writing-disorder in english. Likely due to it being less coherent. Also, there is no equivalent of a "spelling bee" in most other languages. Being able to spell all words is not seen as an exceptional skill in most languages written in the Latin script.
- emodendroket 6y ago
  I think you probably mean "consistent" rather than "coherent." Either that or you have a low view of our writers!
  - marcodiego 6y ago
    I used the term "coherent" because I was referring to what the text called "kohirnt speling".
    - emodendroket 6y ago
      Fair but saying English writing is incoherent makes it sound like their ideas are all over the place and you can't make heads or tails of it
      - wizzwizz4 6y ago
        Of a person, yes. Of a language, I think the intention is clear. Note that this is syntactically ambiguous – a lovely feature of English. Try writing a sentence that isn't.
        emodendroket 6y ago
        Syntactic ambiguity is a feature of human languages, period. Nothing is uniquely English about it.
        wizzwizz4 6y ago
        It's a feature of many, but not all.
        emodendroket 6y ago
        Name an unambiguous language.

It’s so hilariously and delightfully like Mark Twain to actually put readers through this and I chuckled once I realized what was going on

marcodiego 6y ago

Interesting.... as a Portuguese speaker, I'd say that it gets progressively easier to read. Note that portuguese has way more coherent writing than english.

dathinab 6y ago
While english was simplified quite a bit in the recent 100+ (probably more) years and is often seen as a "simple" language there are quite many languages which are much more coherent then english. E.g. recently there had been an article on hacker news about bilingual people which are fine in one language but have a writing-disorder in english. Likely due to it being less coherent.
- bonoboTP 6y ago
  > E.g. recently there had been an article on hacker news about bilingual people which are fine in one language but have a writing-disorder in english. Likely due to it being less coherent. Also, there is no equivalent of a "spelling bee" in most other languages. Being able to spell all words is not seen as an exceptional skill in most languages written in the Latin script.
emodendroket 6y ago
I think you probably mean "consistent" rather than "coherent." Either that or you have a low view of our writers!
- marcodiego 6y ago
  I used the term "coherent" because I was referring to what the text called "kohirnt speling".
  - emodendroket 6y ago
    Fair but saying English writing is incoherent makes it sound like their ideas are all over the place and you can't make heads or tails of it
    - wizzwizz4 6y ago
      Of a person, yes. Of a language, I think the intention is clear. Note that this is syntactically ambiguous – a lovely feature of English. Try writing a sentence that isn't.
      - emodendroket 6y ago
        Syntactic ambiguity is a feature of human languages, period. Nothing is uniquely English about it.
        wizzwizz4 6y ago
        It's a feature of many, but not all.
        emodendroket 6y ago
        Name an unambiguous language.