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I'm sure this is very interesting but I couldn't make it past the first sentence. I'm sure there's a term for someone who writes like this, but all I could thin

I'm sure this is very interesting but I couldn't make it past the first sentence. I'm sure there's a term for someone who writes like this, but all I could think was "redditspeak," or otherwise stale tryhard wacky. Forcibly inserting so much 'character' into your sentences that your syntax implodes.

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voidhorse 4y ago
I’m not sure if there’s a term yet. I like to call the general vibe (colors, unnecessary font variations, “I’m gods gift to humanity and all you people and your years of hard work are idiotic and beneath me, even though I have yet to do anything life changing” attitude): programmer wishing they were postmodern artist.
coastflow 4y ago
Good candidates for relevant terms may include "stream of consciousness" as a narrative style [0], with a writing tone that is "highly informal" and "colloquial" with "vulgarity" (from the inclusion of "fuck" and other profane words) throughout [1]. The author additionally uses the writing technique of "enallage", defined as a "slight deliberate grammatical mistake that makes a sentence stand out," [2] from the article excerpt: "in other words, we need to use termios. the ugly side of termios." In other words: the author writes in a highly informal, colloquial tone with a stream of consciousness narrative style. The article is notable for its vulgarity and usage of enallage to achieve its exceptionally high degree of informality. The author is reminiscent of James Joyce as an experienced C programmer. [0] https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-stream-consciousness https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-stream-consciou... [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29720/whats-the-difference-between-informal-colloquial-slang-and-vulgar https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29720/whats-the-... [2] https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-enallage-1690647 https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-enallage-1690647

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voidhorse 4y ago

I’m not sure if there’s a term yet. I like to call the general vibe (colors, unnecessary font variations, “I’m gods gift to humanity and all you people and your years of hard work are idiotic and beneath me, even though I have yet to do anything life changing” attitude): programmer wishing they were postmodern artist.

coastflow 4y ago

Good candidates for relevant terms may include "stream of consciousness" as a narrative style [0], with a writing tone that is "highly informal" and "colloquial" with "vulgarity" (from the inclusion of "fuck" and other profane words) throughout [1]. The author additionally uses the writing technique of "enallage", defined as a "slight deliberate grammatical mistake that makes a sentence stand out," [2] from the article excerpt: "in other words, we need to use termios. the ugly side of termios." In other words: the author writes in a highly informal, colloquial tone with a stream of consciousness narrative style. The article is notable for its vulgarity and usage of enallage to achieve its exceptionally high degree of informality. The author is reminiscent of James Joyce as an experienced C programmer. [0] https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-stream-consciousness https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-stream-consciou... [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29720/whats-the-difference-between-informal-colloquial-slang-and-vulgar https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29720/whats-the-... [2] https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-enallage-1690647 https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-enallage-1690647