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  • Hawke@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSwed deez nuts
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    18 hours ago

    How in the fuck do you read this in order?

    This is like the worst mixture of top- and bottom-posting I’ve ever seen.

    Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

    > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

    >> Top-posting.

    >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
















  • Prefixing: I don’t think it is archaic in German, or a bad thing at all. It’s the German style of marking nouns when needed. However in English it is archaic, mostly unused since the 18th century.

    As to your examples? Probably context, or the same way we in English distinguish:

    • I saw her duck (she lowered her head)
    • I saw her duck (she has an unusual pet)

    All languages have ambiguity in some cases; it’s mostly fine. The examples you mention would be ambiguous when spoken [unless they also mark a pronunciation difference], so it is necessary to use that same context in that case.

    Also note that a language that does have a way to distinguish nouns from verbs has a lot more leeway in using phrases that would otherwise be ambiguous, so they’re likely more common.



  • Hawke@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWeb-based Document Editor?
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    7 days ago

    I’m not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs seems to be the first and only one that actually put some new thought into how to organize their toolbar, so that’s my go-to.

    Edit: thinking a little further, my other go-tos are Overleaf or Typst. Those do require that you be okay with a non-wysiwyg editor of course, but they are excellent.