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In my experience, technical people tend to tag way too many topics with “simply”. It is usually best to get rid of the word.
by Scubabear68 1y ago
In my experience, technical people tend to tag way too many topics with “simply”. It is usually best to get rid of the word.
- dctoedt 1y agoFair.
- IshKebab 1y agoI agree. It usually seems simple to the author but it's bloody annoying when some documentations says something is simple and it actually isn't.
- dctoedt 1y agoFair. Context matters.
- ar_lan 1y agoI refuse to use the word "simple" in my docs writing for this precise reason. I have come to view the word to seem condescending/elitist, even if that's not the intent. If something is written as simple, but I as an entrant to something view it as not simple, I'm going to be severely discouraged - "if this is the simple thing, what is the hard thing?" It's often an unnecessary adjective.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoSame in spoken word; I don't know if this is a regional (western European, expat-English) thing, but a lot of people will interspers their spoken sentences with "basically" and "actually" a lot. It's gratuitous and more of a verbal tic than something that adds to their sentence. But maybe I'm overthinking it too much. I prefer reading.