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Do you take a possibility you can be both right and wrong? The feat might not be as difficult as author seems it is. I personally can think of many wa
by lmilcin 5y ago
Do you take a possibility
you can be both right and
wrong? The feat might not
be as difficult as author
seems it is. I personally
can think of many ways to
achieve it. Come to think
of it, it may actually be
even easier because lines
in that guide afford more
ways to be broken because
they are longer. And I am
not even native speaker.
To match lengths you only
need to make one or maybe
two choices per line only
to adjust a word by maybe
one or two chars. This is
nothing very difficult as
any crossword solver will
attest.
- dzdt 5y agoAlso the author gives himself the liberty to use one or two spaces following a period, and on occasion even following a comma.
- db48x 5y agoI disagree that this is important. Search for a double space, and you will see only four that are inside a paragraph, and only one of those is after a comma. There are more stray spaces after the end of a line than there are double spaces inside of a paragraph.
- Gigablah 5y ago"take a possibility", "as author seems it is", "not even native speaker". It's simple to fulfil the requirements, making it flow naturally is not. Also, any mistake early on in any paragraph will have cascading effects.
- lmilcin 5y agoAs somebody said, I am just a random guy on the Internet. I learned this language already as an adult never attending a single lesson. There is a lot of other people that know the language way better than me. Thinking that it must be hard just because it is for you is a well known bias. (EDIT:) Gigablah, I can't reply to your comment because apparently I am rate limited. I am not saying it is easy. I am just saying it is not "most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat". I hope you can appreciate there is a lot of space between "easy" and "stunningly impressive".
- Gigablah 5y agoConversely, thinking that it must be easy just because it is for you is an even more well-known bias. I can even think of an entire industry dedicated to countering this bias.
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- camjohnson26 5y agoIt is easy to do this. All you do is write some text upfront, and go line by line and swap a few words to make the line fit in the margin. Use small words to make it easier.
- batch12 5y agoThe parent makes a good point. Maybe I am jaded, but this isn't a scarily impressive feat of linguistics. It is mildly interesting that someone put the time into this. I would be impressed if it were done on a typewriter. Maybe this rewrite helps clarify the point. Do you think its possible you can be both right and wrong? The feat might not be as crazy as the author claims to think. I myself can think of many ways to achieve it. Come to think of it, it may actually be even easier because lines in that guide afford more ways to be broken because they are longer. I am not even a native speaker.
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- randomswede 5y agoBrick-texting isn't actually that hard, in short isolated bursts. Other geometric texts are not necessarily much harder, But, keeping it up over any length is somewhat impressive. I think the most "simultaneously observed forms" were brick-text with an acrosticon down the left-most column, or brick-text in iambic pentameter. I have attempted observing all tree, if ended badly.
- jliptzin 5y agoI agree, it definitely takes a bit of time but to compare it to Mozart is ludicrous
- HPsquared 5y agoI suppose one only has to adjust the line length by at most half a word per line. It's impressive, but it's not exactly iambic pentameter.