Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm...
by nelsonic on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:27AM
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exactly!
but seriously, it's just a [bad] habit ... thanks for pointing it out. hope it did not detract from my message.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm...
by ledneb on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:59AM
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You wrote a great response! Assuming you genuinely want feedback on it; your writing style does detract a bit from what you're saying - the emphasis and braces don't read like native English. My advice is try not to use quotes, italics and braces at all - go cold turkey! Then you'll probably find yourself using them when you actually _need_ them. :)
Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm...
by bookofjoe on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:04AM
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A bit OT: "Using an exclamation point only serves to call attention to the writer."—Miss Steiger, 10th grade English, Washington H.S., Milwaukee, 1964
Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm...
by elyobo on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:14AM
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I find it hard to read, because I find myself mentally pausing and stressing those words in my head and there are a lot of them! Also the square brackets and the quotes around words that don't seem to warrant them - I'm not sure what you mean by them and so I'm not certain whether I'm getting the same message that you're intending to convey.
If I can just ignore them it seems to read better but it's hard work to do so, but maybe that's just me :)
Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm...
by PascLeRasc on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:28AM
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Hey, I like it. Yes it takes longer to read, but people don't speak at one cadence all the time. We make words longer or take short pauses to emphasize our point. I like the creativity.