I found it quite impressive that people are capable of this. For me, I have neither energy, nor ability, nor comprehensive knowledge to do so. So, it is always fascinating (and a bit intimidating) to see people writing these all the time. I want to ask how you guys achieve this feat.

Maybe, is it that I am nonverbal so I cannit write coherently?

  • Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Look into technical writing. I took it in college but I’m sure you can find free resources online about it. In short, good technical writing is:

    • accurate
    • concise
    • clear
    • usable
    • readable

    Of course, that’s easier said than done. It makes sense to make a rough outline of what you want to write before you write it. It’s also good to look over what you’ve written afterwards. If you keep these basic principles in mind while planning, writing, and revising, you can make your writing more effective.

          • belastend@slrpnk.net
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            2 years ago

            Here the need part: you dont. Because chomskyite grammar sucks sweaty balls.

            Tbf, by my second run through Intro to Pragmatics i got the maxims. But our prof had some really strange interpretations of them.

              • belastend@slrpnk.net
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                2 years ago

                Tree Diagrams can be useful to structure a sentence, but the UG system of “assume one system fits every language cuz inherent ability” is bad.

                If you want to check your understanding of how phrases, clauses and words connect to each other in a certain language, trees can be pretty powerful.

                To the latter point: My biggest gripe with linguistics is the tendency to boil everything down to a simple system.

                Do you want to elaborate more on how politeness cant be explained by gricean maximes?