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Then you must be writing extremely fast to make so many basic punctuation and grammar errors consistently throughout your posts. If you wish to be understood, s
by ghc 1y ago
Then you must be writing extremely fast to make so many basic punctuation and grammar errors consistently throughout your posts. If you wish to be understood, slow down and put more time into your writing. Writing on an internet forum is no different from other forms of written communication -- write for your audience and don't use jargon as a crutch.
- mallowdram 1y agoThe engineering tyrannical drive for plain English doesn't fit in the web's protocol philosophy. It's a place where all styles and forms belong. "Written communication" is by nature jargon when specializations are interdisciplinary, otherwise monoculture takes root. If you don't understand something, ask or search - this is the web, dude. Nothing ends here.
- ghc 1y ago> The engineering tyrannical drive The critique you're dismissing is from an English professor who teaches argument, not "engineering." So your writing is in fact being criticized by both "CS" and "English" (as you might put it). I'm not implying that taking license with punctuation, vocabulary, or grammar is necessarily bad -- I studied writing under two poet laureates, so I'm no stranger to unusual syntax -- but what are you writing on an Internet forum for if not to be understood? Your arguments against writing more plainly are quite familiar to me; engineers make similar arguments when told they need improve their documentation or user training materials.