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WCDT 4111-4115 (October 14th-18th, 2019)

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Thrudd:

--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 24 Oct 2019, 07:18 ---Every so often I have to rephrase and chop my single German sentence into two or three English ones. It's incredibly annoying being used to using what feels like ultra-long sentences hardly anyone else would use.

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If only that were the case in a majority of correspondence I get from people I have to deal with at work, be they vendors or clients.
Short simple sentences are preferred for clarity, especially when talking about anything technical.
Sadly I have to deal with run-on sentences that do not contain a single coherent thought within their spaghetti of text.
(click to show/hide)At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

notStanley:
I have just enough old math and programming that I tend to use a lot of parentheses.  I try to avoid 3rd levels of nesting : }

Pygar:
 During the war, Isaac Asimov was in the military, and had to deal with the insane paperwork. He deliberately generated a requisition that was insanely complex and parenthesized, but entirely within the guidelines.
They asked for permission to add it to the next manual. To them, it was a *perfect* example...

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