hot take: if you find that your sentences can’t be parsed reliably without brackets, that’s a sign you should probably refactor your writing to be clearer
I’m generally sympathetic to this. But in some cases, there’s a sentence structure that is easily parsed when spoken, but hard to parse when written. In such cases, I think that punctuating the sentences to aid parsing can lead to easily parsable sentences.
I find [the use of square brackets to show the merge structure of [a linguistic entity that might otherwise be confusing to parse]] delightful :)
hot take: if you find that your sentences can’t be parsed reliably without brackets, that’s a sign you should probably refactor your writing to be clearer
I’m generally sympathetic to this. But in some cases, there’s a sentence structure that is easily parsed when spoken, but hard to parse when written. In such cases, I think that punctuating the sentences to aid parsing can lead to easily parsable sentences.
Refactoring your writing for clarity is taxing and will reduce overall word count on LW. That would be an improvement for some users but not others.
I know some major offenders when it comes to unnecessary-hyphenation-trains, but usually I still find all their posts and comments net positive.
Of course, I would be happy if those users could increase clarity without sacrificing other things.
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