Another splendid assault on conventional writing advice, as Lingua Franca has tended to do lately. https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/09/18/a-hurrah-for-the-long-sentence/ …
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF
I worked with / had as a startup cofounder a guy who's first spoken language was German. Very long sentences. That was OK. What was NOT ok was his tendency to use a pronoun early in a 200 word sentence and define it only at the end. I asked him to stop; he argued that it was >
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Replying to @MorlockP @JohnBarnesSF
perfectly reasonable. I made the software analogy of keeping multiple variables on a stack resulting in stack overflow before evaluation could collapse them. He was unpersuaded (bc from his point of view they WERE defined the whole time). >>
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Replying to @MorlockP @JohnBarnesSF
I finally found an academic linguistics paper on anaphoric / cataphoric references and how time to comprehend a sentence went up linearly with the former but exponentially with the latter, and he was (grudgingly) convinced.
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Replying to @BrowningMachine @JohnBarnesSF
no! someone ELSE did; I merely stumbled across their research!
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I mean, yes, I was hoping that EXACTLY that piece of research existed, and was looking for it with very precise search terms (so we get into a Borges library sort of thing - if I go looking in the library for a book titled "Nixon is a shovel" and find it, who's the author?)
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