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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by pc86 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:18AM (#13607476)
> it won't really (and by really I mean rigorously) explain (and by explain I mean prove) much of anything

Sentence would be a lot shorter if you had just said "it won't rigorously prove much of anything."

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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by campervan on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:46AM (#13607694)
Yeah, who needs nuance anyway? Just communicate using pure logic next time.
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by pc86 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:33PM (#13608842)
Generally I'd agree with you, but the parenthetical statements only make the sentence harder to read and do not change or add to the meaning at all, at least to me.
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by dvt on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:31PM (#13610061)
It's one of my many bad habits learned as a philosophy undergraduate :)
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by v3gas on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:05PM (#13609814)
It's fun, though!
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