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Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by sideshowb on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:57PM (#41573775)
You seem to be suggesting that it's good writing style to make your reader struggle as if with a foreign language?
Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @08:32PM (#41574395)
My original example was going to be, a young person reading an adult book with a large vocabulary. I decided that might come off as rude, so I changed it, and maybe lost some impact.

Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not obligate all authors to write to your reading level.

Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by sideshowb on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:56AM (#41577437)
I guess I don't interpret bmacho's comment as relating to disability, just a general objection to excessive weird words a la https://xkcd.com/483/
Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by Suppafly on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:03PM (#41582482)
>Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not obligate all authors to write to your reading level.

This, although it's not even always a disability related issue. Sometimes things in life aren't made for you, and you'll be happier understanding that. It's similar to complaining that an advanced mathematics textbook wasn't understandable given your baseline understanding of maths. It's not being written for you.

Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:02AM (#41575668)
Ever read A Clockwork Orange? Guessing that didn't go over well with you.
Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by sideshowb on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:49AM (#41577386)
Oh that was great. In no small part because Burgess's slang is rooted in real etymology so it's not entirely a foreign language so much as creative use of our own. Snowcrash is similar in this respect.