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Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by archeantus on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:02AM (#22491109)
“ However, Levandowski personally filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating that the presumptive $179M debt quite exceeds his assets, which he estimates at somewhere between $50M and $100M.”

I’m not an English expert, but I am a native speaker. Although the above sentence is understandable, when you look at it closer the sentence structure is a bit wonky. Anecdotally, I don’t like starting a sentence with “However,”, and this article has that twice. I think it is that kind of style where the author is making a statement and then forcing you to hold it in memory, so to speak, is what the commenter is referring to. It gets mentally taxing to keep track of all of the threads.

Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by nilkn on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:53AM (#22491275)
While that style might not be to everyone’s taste, that sentence definitely is grammatically correct and does not have any comma splices. Personally I don’t find it that awkward either.
Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by angry_octet on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:35AM (#22491444)
Is is really meaningful, as a defence, to say a sentence is grammatically correct, if the meaning is unclear or the style is wretched?

Instead we should ask, if a sentence is unclear and wretchedly wrought, what purpose is served in pointing out its grammatical correctness? That is like admiring a two legged horse.

The author was no doubt under a tight deadline and just bashing it out with even less thought than I give to this post, but nevertheless has an MSc in Journalism (how is that an MSc?) and a BA, and can surely do better.

Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by govg on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:58AM (#22493135)
Misquoting Futurama, "they are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by C1sc0cat on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:20AM (#22492396)
Second comma could have been a - eg "assets - which he"

But I agree that there is nothing wrong with that sentence.

Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by saghm on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:46AM (#22491256)
The sentence you quoted is technically grammatically correct, but I agree that it reads pretty awkwardly