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Sure, it's not a 1:1 map, but often who does an excellent job, does it along all the line: form, content, and the best papers are even shorter normally... They
by antirez 1y ago
Sure, it's not a 1:1 map, but often who does an excellent job, does it along all the line: form, content, and the best papers are even shorter normally... They don't have to justify with many pages the lack of real content.
About the nobel price quote: it shows that the most powerful language is unexpected, breaks the obviousness of things, something that ancient greeks knew very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
- layer8 1y agoI was responding to “the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too.” About the nobel prize quote, it isn’t that powerful to me because I don’t really know what it wants to say, and it didn’t lead me to any notable insight either. But maybe that’s just me.
- saltwatercowboy 1y agoPerhaps one sniff test for bad writing is presence of a link to the Wikipedia page for rhetoric.
- antirez 1y agoPontiggia sometimes explained parts of other writers just using rethoric figures, and showing how their application provided new insights into things and concepts.