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pmg101yesterday at 8:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.


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mdspantoday at 3:12 AM

That's the most annoying one, and the two negated things more often than not end up being something no one would have ever considered in the first place.

woadwarrior01yesterday at 10:51 PM

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

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moritzwarhieryesterday at 9:30 PM

Got it. No bullshit, no ceremony: just straight to the point.

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punk_ihaqyesterday at 9:37 PM

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