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Should the title here be 4.6 to 4.7 instead of the other way around?
by someuser54541 6mo ago
Should the title here be 4.6 to 4.7 instead of the other way around?
- freak42 6mo agoabsolutely!
- UltraSane 6mo agoWriting Opus 4.6 to 4.7 does make more sense for people who read left to right.
- pixelatedindex 6mo agoI’m impressed with anyone who can read English right to left.
- einpoklum 6mo agoRight to Left English - read can, who? Anyone with [which] impressed am I.
- y1n0 6mo agoYoda, you that is?
- adrian_b 6mo agoEnglish can be read in a different order than the normal order when the sentences contain words for which it is easy to guess whether they are agents or patients, e.g. when the agents are animate nouns and the patients are inanimate nouns, or when pronouns are used for the agents or patients. Otherwise, the non-standard order can be understood incorrectly. While the distinction between agents and patients is the most important that depends on word order in English, there are also other order-dependent distinctions, e.g. between beneficiary and patient, when the beneficiary is not marked by a preposition, or between a noun and its attribute, e.g. "police dog" is not the same as "dog police" and unless there is a detailed context you cannot know what is meant when the word order is wrong. English is one of the languages with the most rigid word order. There are languages, especially among older languages, where almost any word order can be used without causing ambiguities, because all the possible roles of the words are marked by prepositions, postpositions or affixes (or sometimes by accentuation shifts).
- einpoklum 6mo agoIn my example, the RTL reading is indeed a misunderstanding. I even cheated, because it really should have been: > Left to Right English - read can, who? Anyone with [which] impressed am I. and the causation is wrong; instead of the ability being impressive, it's the impressive character than allows reading in the opposite order. So, you're right, and now I'll wait for the dog police to come pick me up.
- jlongman 6mo agoYou might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
- amulyabaral 6mo agoWhoa! TIL! I struggled a bit to read this style at first, but felt it get easier after a few tries.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoBut the page is not in a language that should be read right to left, doesn't that make that kind of confusing?
- usrnm 6mo agoDid you mean "right to left"?
- embedding-shape 6mo agoI very much did, it got too confusing even for me. Thanks!
- UltraSane 6mo agoI kept mentally verifying that English is written left to right.
- bee_rider 6mo agoErr, how so?