Comment by mlhpdx
2 days ago
What about the people who struggle to form coherent prose for mental or physical reasons? The content should be judged for what it contains, not how it was made.
2 days ago
What about the people who struggle to form coherent prose for mental or physical reasons? The content should be judged for what it contains, not how it was made.
You're getting into the long tail of cases there, which can't be generalized about. We'd need to know about a specific situation in order to say anything.
Is it a long tail? Let's take me, because I know the subject well.
I have poor working memory. Very poor, insomuch as I have to type six digit codes in blocks of three.
I can write, of course, and sometimes well. But technical writing requires maintaining both detail and thread and I cannot do both in a sustained way. For a short comment, I'm usually okay. For anything longer, not so much.
Is the long tail the whole beast? I think yes.
So I write shorthand and use tools to help me, and yes the results aren't always perfect -- but they are my thoughts embodied.