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In this response, I'm going to tell you that I think it's pedantic and wasteful, and mainly done to take up extra space. It's my honest opinion that people do
by fusiongyro 14y ago
In this response, I'm going to tell you that I think it's pedantic and wasteful, and mainly done to take up extra space.
It's my honest opinion that people do this because they want to take up extra space, and because they vaguely remember someone in school telling them "that's how you should write an essay." But that doesn't mean it's appropriate. In many cases, it simply adds bloat. Unnecessary scaffolding upon which nothing hangs but empty air.
In conclusion, I disagree with you, because I think the form is overused and leads to pervasive snoring. It could be used well, but if it were I wouldn't be complaining about it. I have now explained why I think this is and now I invite you and/or the reader to draw your/their own conclusion/s.
- chrisyeh 14y agoIn this case, it's a publishing artifact. I wrote the content in parts for the sake of Sulia, which has a 2,500 character limit on posts. On the other hand, there is real value to using subheads; I'd rather lampshade transitions with subheads than write so-so transitional paragraphs.
- jaggederest 14y agoYou have extremely poor reading comprehension if you think I was disagreeing with you. As I said, it doesn't work well in very short examples.
- fusiongyro 14y agoOh come on, that was comedy gold.