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goodmythical • yesterday at 11:16 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

where does the necessity for ease of parsing come from

no ones going to argue that the page should be rewritten in chinese spanish or hindi so that the information would be easier for those readers to parse

to assume that the reader needs punctuation or even proper splling in order to rcv the message is nthing more than an extra nicety for only an english reading crowd

I am deliberately avoiding punctuation, there, because adding it does not add any information that is not already present in the text in order to demonstrate the point: The punctuation is not necessary. The information was transmitted and recieved. We know it is recieved because it was 'harder' to parse, not 'impossible' to parse.

Is it nice to have? Maybe. Perhaps for some.

Necessary? Certainly not.


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margalabargala • yesterday at 11:31 PM

We're interpreting the "for what" part of "necessary" differently.

I'll draw inspiration from you and assume you don't need it spelled out.

fn-mote • today at 12:47 AM

Non-existent punctuation makes it tougher for non-native speakers.

Your spellings certainly make it a lot harder.