People are adding typos, aggressively casual language and references to ‘The Office’ to stay ahead of armchair detectors; ‘It’s like the new McCarthyism.’
I always agreed with info quality over style restrictions even as a kid. I remember fighting with a teacher that I should be able to have standalone numbers/letters in my outline notes because sometimes there’s only 1 point in the category and I don’t want to make shit up because some knucklehead decided there have to be 2+ items per category
But now I’m mad that I spent all that effort unlearning “bad writing habits” only for those to be something I needed in the future to differentiate me from clankers 🤦♀️ and that the “good writing habits” I personally agree with are now bad
or we could just stop perseverating over style of the writing and start focusing on the quality of the content 🤷
I always agreed with info quality over style restrictions even as a kid. I remember fighting with a teacher that I should be able to have standalone numbers/letters in my outline notes because sometimes there’s only 1 point in the category and I don’t want to make shit up because some knucklehead decided there have to be 2+ items per category
But now I’m mad that I spent all that effort unlearning “bad writing habits” only for those to be something I needed in the future to differentiate me from clankers 🤦♀️ and that the “good writing habits” I personally agree with are now bad
it’s a very stupid time to be alive