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good article I just don't know why author prefer to spell all numbers using words rather than digits. It's very mentally taxing for me to read, e.g: >> of twen
by pzo 1y ago
good article I just don't know why author prefer to spell all numbers using words rather than digits. It's very mentally taxing for me to read, e.g:
>> of twenty-one thousand respondents in twenty-one countries, found that sixty-eight per cent favored solar energy, “five times more [...]
could be just:
>> of 21,000 responders in 21 countries, found that 68% favored solar energy, "5x more [...]
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoI believe this is a New Yorker magazine house style thing. I'd assume the author uses numerals in the book this article is based on.
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- bokkies 1y agoAlso Cape Town is a city in South Africa..no idea where Capetown is
- antonvs 1y agoIt's near Stellen Bosch
- happyraul 1y agoThat's simply good writing practice. I find it more taxing to read digits than prose.
- sojournerc 1y agoI was taught numbers up to ten should be spelled, the rest use digits
- mrspuratic 1y agoChicago Manual of Style (though it says 1 to 100, er, I mean one to one-hundred). I try to use a CMOS subset for my professional/technical writing, mostly for consistency, but, partly so that I don't need to argue with people with subjective opinions about how I'm writing it wrong.
- otikik 1y agoThank you. To me after reading the parent comment the numbers option was so evidently better that I didn't even consider that someone like you could exist. My conception of humanity has been slightly enlarged. If I may ask: Do you also find numbers more difficult to parse when doing math pure math operations? Is this: Two hundred thirty five plus one thousand eight hundred twenty two Also easier for you to parse than this? 235 + 1822 Or do you have two "parsing modes" ("text" and "math"), and going from one to the other is the difficult part?