Rating things on a numerical scale is pointless and only meant to give the false impression of some objective standard, when really knowing what the person meant requires knowing what their tastes are anyway

If you’re gonna review something, just give me insight into your personal tastes, and then tell me whether you liked it or not

I agree with you on the pet peeves, but when it comes to binary prefices, I am always in favor of clarity in communication instead of leaving things up to context clues and interpretation (aka assuming everyone thinks the same way)

Logically what you’re saying makes perfect sense.

But there’s just something so strangely beautiful about the thought that on a certain planet in the middle of nowhere, there is a species of animal that buries their dead in groups all facing the same direction. No one is quite sure why they do this, not even them

An opinion piece I read once about accessibility in writing—touching on things like tone indicators and breaking up overly-dense sentences/paragraphs—made a point that stuck with me and has clear applications in so many areas:

Your audience only has so much cognitive energy to devote to what you’re saying. Every little hurdle you add funnels that much more energy away from understanding your message toward deciphering what you were trying to say.

That means unnecesary jargon, overlong sentences with complex structures, and pretentious diction are all hindering your ability to communicate. But so are grammatical mistakes and typos.

Sure a few heer and there are forgivable, but fi ur reeders hev 2 desifer sumthen liek dis jus bc day shud no wut u mean, they may lose interest or be too distracted by the medium to comprehend the message.

Corollary to all this: those cute little “quirks” you give your writing so people will recognize you by your style are ironically hindering their ability to recognize you by your ideas, which are infinitely more important than an aesthetic

I also just like not having to mash my spacebar 20 fucking times with each new line like I’m playing the world’s most repetitive strain injury-inducing quicktime event because I’m 5 levels deep and the style guide/linter requires 4 space indentation

You’re using “ignore” wrong, not the other way around.

If you want to be a linguistic pedant, then we should consider that both “ignorant” and “ignore” ultimately comes from proto-indo-european *ǵneh₃-, which meant “to know”, and a negation prefix. So really the words should mean “the act of not knowing” (ignore) and “the quality/state of not knowing” (ignorant). Not avoiding knowledge, just lacking it

My hot take is that beans are great, and the brits are right to put them on everything