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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #120 on: May 25, 2015, 11:35:30 AM »
Could Jack/Gary use paragraphs? It is easier to read then. Thanks. :)
No.
TL;DR then.
It would have been equally long with paragraphs. Not going to change the way I write for you. If that means it doesn't get read because I'm not willing to present it the way you want to look at it, then okay with that.

Writing styles are unique to individuals and can't imagine anyone changing their own writing voice to please other people. It's weird anyone would suggest you do that. Have probably been critical at some point of others writing, but would be irritated if they actually changed it because of that.

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #121 on: May 26, 2015, 02:50:59 PM »
Could Jack/Gary use paragraphs? It is easier to read then. Thanks. :)
No.
TL;DR then.
It would have been equally long with paragraphs. Not going to change the way I write for you. If that means it doesn't get read because I'm not willing to present it the way you want to look at it, then okay with that.

Writing styles are unique to individuals and can't imagine anyone changing their own writing voice to please other people. It's weird anyone would suggest you do that. Have probably been critical at some point of others writing, but would be irritated if they actually changed it because of that.

Which is fine, but my eyesight makes reading paragraphs like that very hard, so I tend to avoid them. It's a shame because it means I sometimes miss out on things.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #122 on: May 26, 2015, 03:59:25 PM »
Could Jack/Gary use paragraphs? It is easier to read then. Thanks. :)
No.
TL;DR then.
It would have been equally long with paragraphs. Not going to change the way I write for you. If that means it doesn't get read because I'm not willing to present it the way you want to look at it, then okay with that.

Writing styles are unique to individuals and can't imagine anyone changing their own writing voice to please other people. It's weird anyone would suggest you do that. Have probably been critical at some point of others writing, but would be irritated if they actually changed it because of that.

Which is fine, but my eyesight makes reading paragraphs like that very hard, so I tend to avoid them. It's a shame because it means I sometimes miss out on things.

Brings back memories. An exam about German book with hardly any proper paragraphs. And sentences that ran 13 rules long with that too.
I had to structure every page with massive pencil linings to make it clear to me where to pauze and how the lines were running.
One of the horror exams. (That I had not taken German in the last three years at secondary school was not helping either)
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #123 on: May 26, 2015, 05:33:46 PM »
It's not often am inspired to talk this much. You should thank him.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #124 on: May 27, 2015, 02:22:59 AM »
Could Jack/Gary use paragraphs? It is easier to read then. Thanks. :)
No.
TL;DR then.
It would have been equally long with paragraphs. Not going to change the way I write for you. If that means it doesn't get read because I'm not willing to present it the way you want to look at it, then okay with that.

Writing styles are unique to individuals and can't imagine anyone changing their own writing voice to please other people. It's weird anyone would suggest you do that. Have probably been critical at some point of others writing, but would be irritated if they actually changed it because of that.

Which is fine, but my eyesight makes reading paragraphs like that very hard, so I tend to avoid them. It's a shame because it means I sometimes miss out on things.
Same for me. I think my eyesight has something to do with it as well. I will just have to miss out.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #125 on: May 27, 2015, 02:52:28 AM »
Could Jack/Gary use paragraphs? It is easier to read then. Thanks. :)
No.
TL;DR then.
It would have been equally long with paragraphs. Not going to change the way I write for you. If that means it doesn't get read because I'm not willing to present it the way you want to look at it, then okay with that.

Writing styles are unique to individuals and can't imagine anyone changing their own writing voice to please other people. It's weird anyone would suggest you do that. Have probably been critical at some point of others writing, but would be irritated if they actually changed it because of that.

Which is fine, but my eyesight makes reading paragraphs like that very hard, so I tend to avoid them. It's a shame because it means I sometimes miss out on things.
Same for me. I think my eyesight has something to do with it as well. I will just have to miss out.
Not sure if it's my eyesight but a block of text like that won't process for me. The weird thing is that I used to write like that. I changed it partly because I couldn't read what I wrote but also because others couldn't either. I don't think paragraph breaks have much to do with style for me. Mine is in the meaning of the words. Patterns do emerge but they tend to be things like repeated phrases lined up with each other. Not on purpose.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #126 on: May 27, 2015, 04:18:01 PM »
Paragraphs are generally five character indents, not double spacing of lines breaking text into small chunks with gaps between. Not certain how people manage reading much of anything. 

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #127 on: May 27, 2015, 04:23:35 PM »
I don't think paragraph breaks have much to do with style for me. Mine is in the meaning of the words. Patterns do emerge but they tend to be things like repeated phrases lined up with each other. Not on purpose.
Lots of things come across as personal style to me. Can sometimes see a person in their writing without even reading the words. Habits in the use of the return and space keys are certainly among that.

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #128 on: May 27, 2015, 11:11:27 PM »
Paragraphs are generally five character indents, not double spacing of lines breaking text into small chunks with gaps between. Not certain how people manage reading much of anything.

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #129 on: May 28, 2015, 04:02:37 PM »
Probably wont be a common problem; Piper is right.

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #130 on: May 28, 2015, 04:09:49 PM »
Got taught that paragraphing is as important as punctuation. Most of the time sentences are readable and understandable without punctuation. But, sometimes the meaning becomes obscure without.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #131 on: May 28, 2015, 04:56:07 PM »
Will have to remember that when submitting my next assignment. :laugh:

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #132 on: May 29, 2015, 11:16:58 AM »
Got taught that paragraphing is as important as punctuation. Most of the time sentences are readable and understandable without punctuation. But, sometimes the meaning becomes obscure without.

Itisjustasimportantasthespacesbetweenthewordsinasentence.
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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #133 on: May 29, 2015, 11:44:24 AM »
Got taught that paragraphing is as important as punctuation. Most of the time sentences are readable and understandable without punctuation. But, sometimes the meaning becomes obscure without.

Itisjustasimportantasthespacesbetweenthewordsinasentence.

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Re: baltimore (and everywhere else)
« Reply #134 on: May 29, 2015, 12:26:56 PM »
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