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causaltoday at 11:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

> writes too elliptically

> Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice

Wow, what a great way of phrasing this. Thanks for word-smithing what I've been wanting to express for so long.


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nobleachtoday at 1:11 PM

This just mimics what I call BusinessBro™ speech. It also goes the other way, they use verbs as nouns. "I know this is a big ask". "The solve for that is that we can...." When it was just my product owner in tech meetings, I'd mock him relentlessly "There's already a word for that, it's 'request'" or "Are you sure you didn't mean 'SOLUTION'?? words are hard man". (This was all in good fun, I still love the guy to pieces).

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causaltoday at 11:29 AM

Follow up thought: I wonder if Claude is overtrained on academic papers, which often suffer the same kind of "prove how good I am at talking before getting to the point" prose.

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