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The style of the plain English translation is hard for me to read, because it avoids commas to lower the sentence length. Is there any evidence that replacing a
by strken 5y ago
The style of the plain English translation is hard for me to read, because it avoids commas to lower the sentence length. Is there any evidence that replacing a comma with a full stop makes a sentence easier to read, or is it just an unintended consequence of the metric?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Is there any evidence that replacing a comma with a full stop makes a sentence easier to read You can't generally make two grammatically-correct English sentences by starting with one and swapping a comma for a full stop, and if you can find a case where you can, it probably doesn't preserve meaning, even in the approximate (losing distinctions of how tightly coupled ideas are) sense you can with a semicolon rather than a comma. But, generally, yes there is considerable evidence that shorter, simpler sentences (even if the total work is similar length) are easier to read, at the expense of reducing the space of ideas that can be clearly expressed.
- gnuvince 5y agoIt's a bit funny to me that a reply about the value of short sentences starts with a sentence of 58 words (including the parenthetical).
- strken 5y agoYou can't generally do it. But you can write like this. To artificially reduce sentence length. And it is really difficult to read. For a native English speaker. It also seems like that style of writing in particular probably doesn't help reading comprehension, even though shorter sentence in general do.