Cornell 3 RPI 3 Post-game Thread

[cth95]

I didn't even read that post simply because it looked like a mess.  I didn't feel like putting the effort into deciphering the mass of text.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote cth95]I didn't even read that post simply because it looked like a mess.  I didn't feel like putting the effort into deciphering the mass of text.[/quote]Ditto, the purpose of grammar and rules are basically to made it comprehensible for the reader. Otherwise you can have stream of consiousness and maybe a trip to your shrink::demented::.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote plrd78]This was the hardest thing I've had to read all day. I've been reading technical papers in biomedical and other research.

What type of comment is that...Do you understand the game or are you to busy about reading papers...From that comment you do not understand the game..[/quote]

He was saying he had trouble understanding your post.  And not surprisingly, your reply was difficult to understand as well.  First of all, you should leave in the "quote" tags so we can tell which text is yours and which is his.  Second, "are you to busy about reading papers" is very hard to parse.  You may think it's trivial that you wrote "to" when you meant to write "too", but the reader needs every clue he or she can get when your sentence includes expressions like "busy about" which most of us have never seen before in the English language.  (A question mark at the end of the question wouldn't hurt either.)

[Beeeej]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote plrd78]This was the hardest thing I've had to read all day. I've been reading technical papers in biomedical and other research.

What type of comment is that...Do you understand the game or are you to busy about reading papers...From that comment you do not understand the game..[/quote]

He was saying he had trouble understanding your post.  And not surprisingly, your reply was difficult to understand as well.  First of all, you should leave in the "quote" tags so we can tell which text is yours and which is his.  Second, "are you to busy about reading papers" is very hard to parse.  You may think it's trivial that you wrote "to" when you meant to write "too", but the reader needs every clue he or she can get when your sentence includes expressions like "busy about" which most of us have never seen before in the English language.  (A question mark at the end of the question wouldn't hurt either.)[/quote]

See, I thought it was worth explaining that clarity of writing is about presentation, not about being graded.  But now you're just correcting the individual flaws in his writing, which I think is a complete waste of time and also makes you look pedantic.  Insert singing pigs metaphor here.