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NooneAtAll3 ◴[] No.45114145[source]
fascinating topic, but does anyone else feel like the text is hard to read?

something about choice of words and sentence structure feels... un-prose-like

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1. kace91 ◴[] No.45114246[source]
I’m a not a native speaker so take it with a grain of salt, but I think it’s the cadence of phrases.

Writers can use it as a tool by playing with the length and complexity of phrases - to create speed or calm, for example.

When the rythm doesn’t change, and there’s a succession of similar-length simple statements for a long time, it sounds robotic after a while:

“I run this command. Then that problem happened. This caused something else . I addressed the issue. Something else happened. Now I adress it.”

This is not a criticism toward the author to be clear, I was just curious about what caused your feeling and checked.