Light disagree. Prefix modifiers are cognitively burdensome compared to postfix modifiers. Imagine reading:
”What I’m about to say is a bit of a rant. I’m about 30% confident it’s true. Disclosure, I have a personal stake in the second organization involved. I’m looking for good counter arguments. Based on a conversation with Paul. I have a formal writeup at this blog post. Part of the argument is unfair, I apologize. I...”
Gaaa, just give me something concrete already! It’s going to be hard enough understanding your argument as it is; it’s even harder for me to understand your argument while having to keep unresolved modifiers loaded in my mental stack.
I actually disagree, it may be true about the other parts of the prefix, but reading something that is tagged as uncharitable rant would make me less inclined to get mad and react uncharitably. the point of the tagging things as rants is to prevent the dynamic when emotions mindkill people and discussions, and saying something is unfair at the beginning produce different emotional reaction.
also, the last time i encountered that sort of prefix it was at part of long post, and was much less hard to parse, as i had context. and it prevented the need to going back to understand what was intended, thing that is cognitively costly, too.
the question is if something is worth it. reading long posts is more cognitively costly then watching tiktok videos. and yet, here we are. something being costly is not enough to avoid it.
Light disagree. Prefix modifiers are cognitively burdensome compared to postfix modifiers. Imagine reading:
”What I’m about to say is a bit of a rant. I’m about 30% confident it’s true. Disclosure, I have a personal stake in the second organization involved. I’m looking for good counter arguments. Based on a conversation with Paul. I have a formal writeup at this blog post. Part of the argument is unfair, I apologize. I...”
Gaaa, just give me something concrete already! It’s going to be hard enough understanding your argument as it is; it’s even harder for me to understand your argument while having to keep unresolved modifiers loaded in my mental stack.
I actually disagree, it may be true about the other parts of the prefix, but reading something that is tagged as uncharitable rant would make me less inclined to get mad and react uncharitably. the point of the tagging things as rants is to prevent the dynamic when emotions mindkill people and discussions, and saying something is unfair at the beginning produce different emotional reaction.
also, the last time i encountered that sort of prefix it was at part of long post, and was much less hard to parse, as i had context. and it prevented the need to going back to understand what was intended, thing that is cognitively costly, too.
the question is if something is worth it. reading long posts is more cognitively costly then watching tiktok videos. and yet, here we are. something being costly is not enough to avoid it.