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Did you consider that the article is educating people? It even uses the opportunity to have a link to one of their other articles specifically about AU. In com
by vmception 5y ago
Did you consider that the article is educating people? It even uses the opportunity to have a link to one of their other articles specifically about AU.
In comparison, you wrote two redundant sentences and didn't teach anyone what an AU was, choosing instead to go on a grammar critique that winds up teaching less. Its often common to incorporate synonyms in editorial writing specifically to avoid writing the same phrases twice.
- vba616 5y agoThe article seems to be technically correct, but the confusion demonstrated here by inimino is evidence it probably won't educate people. Sometimes proving a person wrong proves them right!
- inimino 5y agoThe way to educate people is to say "less than 1/3 the distance to the sun (that is, less than 1/3 of an astronomical unit or AU)". It would have been easy to structure the sentence in a way to make it clear that this is not a coincidence. This is exactly the missed opportunity that I was trying to point out. If you write "less than 1/3 X" and then later "or about 1/3 Y", surely you can agree that's not the very best way to point out that X and Y are definitionally equivalent, right?
- vmception 5y agoOkay I see what you’re saying now Yeah having that in parenthesis would explain it all