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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by zhte415 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:43PM (#24539570)
Typing a domain or having a preference for a browser, perhaps more IT in background, is a huge generational gap. EDIT as I seem to be a computer! Let me explain a recent conversation, one of several, that illustrated this. /EDIT

Chatting with a friend that wants an app for his small business, just a 3 page app with a contact form: His clients are mainly 20s, mainly early 20s, not particularly technical. Most (so, around 60% of his client base) comment "Why no app." Most would have never have much recall of RSS.

He's 35, I'm around the same generation "Why do they need this? It's a front page and contact form, all communication then goes by email or Facebook." He said all about discovery and stickiness. Smart guy, certainly has a plan to increase stickiness with push notifications of articles/promoting his business. An interesting conversation.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by atomi on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:53PM (#24539629)
That's an interesting writing style.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by zhte415 on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:29AM (#24539804)
This is weird. I've had this comment here before, not a lot, but once every few months. What is it in particular? Punctuation? Adjective clauses?

No, I am not a computer.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by renewiltord on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:09AM (#24540325)
It's a staccato speaking style with articles/embellishment removed, but written in text. I like the effect, personally, and use it sometimes when speaking and rarely when writing.

Often people respond with Office reference: "Why use many word when few word do trick". Amusing. Novel reference. Haven't heard before.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by SuperCuber on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:20AM (#24540074)
You have lots of small sentences, and some of them lack the words to make it a complete one.

For example, instead of starting a sentence with "Smart guy, ...", most people would write something like "He's a smart guy". Or instead of "An interesting conversation", people would write "We had many interesting conversations" or something along those lines.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by interfixus on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:23AM (#24540417)
Like fine. Easy understand. Criticism in thread unwarranted.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by klipt on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:36AM (#24539840)
Is English your second language?

I guess everyone is more suspicious since GPT-3 came out and a bunch of people made ML generated blog posts etc.

FWIW I found your comment understandable.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by zhte415 on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:50AM (#24539916)
Not a second language. But spent the last decade largely speaking a second (or third) language and/or with ESL speakers. Perhaps that's starting to rub-off! Oh dear.. Not sleeping right for the past few days may also be a factor. GPT-3 paranoia may also be a thing.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by bxparks on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:39PM (#24548191)
I think my problem is that many of your sentence fragments are not complete sentences. You keep dropping the Subject and/or Verb of the sentence.

In the above post, "But spent the last decade... ESL speakers.", you dropped the "I".

In your original post, you wrote: "Chatting with a friend that wants... not particularly technical." You dropped the "I" and the "was", and it was a long sentence, so it was difficult to figure out who was chatting and with whom.

You also leave out the commas before quotations, making it difficult to figure out who's saying what.

Another example: "He said all about discovery and stickiness." I'm still not sure what this means. Did he literally say, "all about discovery and stickiness"? Or do you mean that he said "all" (i.e. a lot of stuff) about the topic of "discovery and stickiness"? Or did you drop the "it is", and mean that he said, "It's all about discovery and stickiness."

Is your second language one of those languages where the Subject is often implicit in the context? I find that in written English, dropping the Subject and Verb does not work so well. I find it interesting that this would affect your written communication so much.

Many of my friends and most of my coworkers speak/spoke English as a second language. When speaking to them, I would find myself using simpler words and simpler grammar (e.g. simple past tense instead of past perfect progressive tense). But when writing to them, most of them can read English perfectly well, and often know the rules of English grammar better than me, so I did not have to simplify my written communication.

Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by eythian on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:38AM (#24542135)
I mostly work and socialise with people who have English as a second language. I have noticed myself simplifying sentences a fair bit too, reducing idiom use, and so on. But perhaps not to the same extreme :)
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by retzkek on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:41PM (#24545488)
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by overcast on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:58PM (#24539654)
I'd have sworn this was written by a machine, and not a human.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by bxparks on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:27AM (#24539797)
Yeah... I can't understand what the writer is trying to say. I read it 3-4 times.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by klipt on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:37AM (#24539850)
Older people prefer browsing to a website. Younger people, too young to remember RSS, prefer apps.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by Diesel555 on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:10AM (#24539711)
This has to be a machine.