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actually i kinda love that . punctuation is semi arbitrary anyway . and this is actually much easier to read than the usual literary english full of semicolons
by sundarurfriend 4y ago
actually i kinda love that . punctuation is semi arbitrary anyway . and this is actually much easier to read than the usual literary english full of semicolons and dashes . mimics speech much better too .
- jameshart 4y agoI think it mimics a certain kind of speech. Some people do talk like that . All complete thoughts . Sequential. Other people—and I very much count myself among them—have a less linear, more tree-like mode of expression; where the ideas, instead of building on what came before, are being laid out out of order – the ideas aren’t completed – and more complex punctuation is needed to establish the relationships between those thoughts. It sounds like I’m saying the former is less sophisticated than the latter. I don’t think that’s true. I think we should probably try to express our ideas in a way that doesn’t require out-of-sequence reasoning. Short, simple sentences. With clear meanings. Building on one another. Much easier to follow. The tree-like mode of endless nested parentheticals and asides is just a rendering of an incomplete thought process. Not better or more sophisticated. Just still in progress.