No, that must of course have been hyperbole.
But as I say, for me, it involves engaging a different mental process from what I would normally describe as ‘reading’. If others had to do the same, I could well imagine them frustratedly describing the passage as ‘incomprehensible’ or ‘gibberish’. In truth, when I look back at it, it’s not nearly the worst example of obscure pidgin posting I’ve seen.
And that’s all I was arguing. It’s a little harder. It’s not more than that.
Its not really hard at all. Its slow. Calculus is hard. Quantum physics is hard. This is just laborious.
Like with the keyboard thing. If I rearranged a touch typist’s keyboard (or just gave a dvorak keyboard to a qwerty typist), it wouldn’t be hard for them to tontinue to type - all the letters woukd still be perfectly visible and usable, it would be laboriously slow.
And I can only read it at a fraction of the speed of standard English.
Actually, maybe only with 50% reduction for the passage from Flowers For Algernon. Its not as badly broken as the OP in the linked thread
“TL;DR” after the first eye-watering line.
Or Iain M. Banks’ Feersum Endjinn. As the title implies, the main narrator in the story speaks entirely in fonetik Inglish.
I suspect that if this poll were applied to Banks’ book, you’d get similar results.
Yep, same problem there. Worse:
At least Banks know where his Enter/Return key is.
The point of the grammar and spelling at the beginning and end of the work in question was designed to make the reader understand that the person writing the diary was a moron. I don’t think that was the idea in the post being discussed. At least I hope not.
Part of the trouble with that post was that, once I got the hang of figuring out the leetspeak, the problem being presented was not interesting enough to reward the effort of deciphering. So both the situation presented and the way that it was presented tended to lower expectations about the OP.
Regards,
Shodan
And a reminder that we just spent 3 pages discussing the quality of a post by someone who has made one and only one post on this MB, and by all indications will never make another.
Yes, I wondered about that myself.
I wondered when someone would wonder about that.
I knew you were going to wonder that.