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While interesting, this is surprisingly poorly written. It contains a lot of the sort of overly verbose and pointlessly technical language that is far too com
by jasonhansel 4y ago
While interesting, this is surprisingly poorly written.
It contains a lot of the sort of overly verbose and pointlessly technical language that is far too common in the corporate world.
One might say that the apparently excessive overuse of nominalization and the remarkably high prevalence of redundant, duplicative, or otherwise unnecessary adjectives and adverbs serve as needless, pointless hindrances to the all-important readability of this critical document.
- hitekker 4y agoWow! Your third paragraph was a seamless example. I had a laugh.
- imwillofficial 4y agoWelcome to military technical writing.
- ethbr0 4y agoAt the same time, a huge amount of the verbosity is defining terms within a document itself. When you're dealing with things with consequences (multi-party construction projects, high tolerance manufacturing, killing humans), it behooves one to be precise. Or, as the allegory goes: The offense was not stopped, for want of proper defensive deployment. The defense was not properly deployed, for want of spacing. The spacing was not correctly measured, for want of a standardized length. The length was not standardized, for want of someone writing a standard down and distributing the documentation.
- jasonhansel 4y agoAnother note: Figure 1-2 (on page 26 of the PDF) is so incomprehensible and useless that I almost wondered if it was satire.