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> notice how theres a definition right in the middle of the article, and not at the beginning. The criticism is of sentence structure, not document structure.
by Clamchop 2y ago
> notice how theres a definition right in the middle of the article, and not at the beginning.
The criticism is of sentence structure, not document structure.
> That analysis revealed that legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences — a feature known as “center-embedding.” Linguists have previously found that this kind of structure can make text much more difficult to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding