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fascinating topic, but does anyone else feel like the text is hard to read? something about choice of words and sentence structure feels... un-prose-like
by NooneAtAll3 1y ago
fascinating topic, but does anyone else feel like the text is hard to read?
something about choice of words and sentence structure feels... un-prose-like
- elric 1y agoI thought it made for a clear and pleasant read. Not sure what your hangup is, but to each their own. "Un-prose-like" sounds like a compliment.
- shmel 1y agoEnglish isn't his native language? Perhaps that's why
- bluetomcat 1y agoTheir English is sufficiently good. It's a cultural aspect regarding writing style. When Russians and most Eastern Europeans write about technical subjects, they tend to be concise, dense and straightforward. Americans, on the other hand, are over-expressive and tend to saturate their writing with pointless metaphors and rhetorical devices.
- torben-friis 1y agoI’m a not a native speaker so take it with a grain of salt, but I think it’s the cadence of phrases. Writers can use it as a tool by playing with the length and complexity of phrases - to create speed or calm, for example. When the rythm doesn’t change, and there’s a succession of similar-length simple statements for a long time, it sounds robotic after a while: “I run this command. Then that problem happened. This caused something else . I addressed the issue. Something else happened. Now I adress it.” This is not a criticism toward the author to be clear, I was just curious about what caused your feeling and checked.