Sparrowhawk21's comments

On: Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScr...

[Sparrowhawk21]

Curious as to why the Indic long and short 'i' matras (diacritics) are used. The placement of short 'i' (to the left of its consonant) is hardly intuitive to English speakers.

On: The Elements of Style [pdf]

[Sparrowhawk21]

Exactly, beware prescriptivist hogwash.

[ryanklee → Sparrowhawk21]

I hope that someday this message makes it into the primary schools. It'd be nice to have a future generation with a significantly lower count of idiotic language pedants.

[hgsgm → Sparrowhawk21]

The paradox of descriptivism is that it can't proscribe prescriptivism.

[msla → hgsgm]

That is not what descriptivism means.

On: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

[Sparrowhawk21]

Same thing as yoga nidra?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_nidra

On: Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and N...

[Sparrowhawk21]

"Write smartly" is normal to me as a speaker of British English. That's not to say the alternative shouldn't be preferred though.

[dunefox → Sparrowhawk21]

> Create courses and learn Smart!

"What's 'Smart' and why do I need to learn it?"

[anigbrowl → Sparrowhawk21]

British people dress smartly and often act smartly but I've never heard anyone say a a book was written smartly, if you see what I mean.

[Sparrowhawk21 → anigbrowl]

They'd probably say "smartly written". But of course that wasn't the original phrase. My point was solely that it's not strange to us.