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I really hate this style of writing.
by knodi 13y ago
I really hate this style of writing.
- recursive 13y agoWhaat?? That writing steez totally rules. It sounds totally natural to me, like the same as I would talk to my boys, chilling at the park. You must be totally lame.
- dfc 13y agoIt is not just you. I was constantly distracted by the writing style. How can a "saucy" sub taste like cardboard? Why bread-y and not sauce-y? I do not know if this overly affected style of communication is prominent in the valley or if it is done in the service of pump priming for newsgenius annotations. I am still curious what a "hella-beta conversation" is.
- beat 13y agoIf something sufficiently awful happens to you, everything you eat can and will taste like cardboard.
- dfc 13y agoSo it should have been "sauce-y"? Saucy (adj): 1. impudent, flippant 2. bold and lively 3. sexualy suggestive
- stevenkovar 13y agoIn this case "beta" (weak, subordinate) is being contrasted with "alpha" (confident, in charge).
- dfc 13y agoBy asking for money you are already in a position of subservience. The whole thing about being alpha is that there is no person/animal above you in the hierarchy and therefore no person to ask.
- ASpring 13y ago"Hella-beta" I'm assuming they are speaking of beta in the kind of male-dominance sense it holds in the animal kingdom. So being "hella-beta" is kind of backing down and giving up the power to someone else who is the alpha of the group.
- dfc 13y agoI had no idea that the animal kingdom was male dominated. I am not familiar with a lot of animal group dynamics, with wolves it is the alpha male and the alpha female; aka the breeding pair. Moreover asking for any amount of money from someone seems "hella-beta."
- rhizome 13y agoI think it's a typo of "betta" for "better."
- dfc 13y agoInitially I thought the same thing but after rereading the sentence/paragraph it seems that the situation is not "better."
- Fishkins 13y agoI think this style of communication is specific to rap genius. It's just their particular way of merging tech/VC and hip-hop vernacular. I agree it can come off as disingenuous, and sometimes confusing. Like some other posters, I was wondering if "beta" was a typo of "betta." Also, although they were part of YC, they're based in NYC, not the valley.
- dfc 13y agoI have only met two legitimate baller gangsters in my life and they did not talk like this. Moreover I think I would have gotten my ass kicked if I talked like this to them.
- hablahaha 13y agoSame. It als really rubs me the wrong way how he claimed the baller ass Russian dude's AirBnB listing was $600, only to later annotate "It was actually closer to $300 / night, but $600 sounds better". Everything sounds better when you exaggerate.
- alex_doom 13y agoMost people would have not idea what we're talking about in most threads here. Lingo, context and style.