Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
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Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
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#2> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose.
Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
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#3> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
>> Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
It's increasingly common in pop-journalism and click-baity content targeting social media. I'm not a big fan of it, but at least here it's conveying meaningful content - more often than not I see this style accompanying content swiped from Reddit with commentary that adds virtually nothing or even contradicts the content as though they didn't even read it fully.
Re: Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
#4> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice.
The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously.
Now everyone can be not taken seriously equally, each according to the weight of their words.
Re: Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
#5> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
> Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
I guess it’s fine if your target audience includes people that will feel more confortable if you write like that.
To me it depends on the subject, for some stuff I just want facts; but for stuff I know less about, I tend to prefer reading in a more casual tone.
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#6> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice. The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously. Now everyone can be not…
"mores", pronounced "morays" :)
Re: Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
#7> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
That's really bizarre phrasing. Maybe it was a botched attempt at a porpoise pun?
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#8> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose. Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days? Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice. The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously. Now everyone can be not…
I am all for using a more casual voice when writing about a subject for an audience outside of that particular domain of expertise. However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless. I am for using plain english to describe latin law terms. I am against colloquial, spoken styles slipping into written word.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice. The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously. Now everyone can be not…
"mores", pronounced "morays" :)
Maybe gp meant that ethnic-minority cultural Moors (read: like cultural Jews) have strong opinions about the prior gatekeeping effect of writing style conventions. =]
Re: Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice. The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously. Now everyone can be not…
"mores", pronounced "morays" :)
"o tempora o mores" as some famous bloke once said. The world is going to hell in a handcart - or words to that effect.
It really is so sad to hear about yet another iconic species shuffle (with unseemly haste) off to oblivion.