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by Stratoscope
2681 days ago
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The problem with "The most interesting..." or "An interesting..." is that it adds zero signal. Everything is interesting to someone. So what? It reminds me of the early days of Macintosh programming when we put "the" in front of all our variable names, like theResource, theWindow, theFile, and theCursor. It was just a lot of noise that added nothing. Strunk and White got this right: Eschew needless words. That said, I was glad to see this and read the article. Atlas Obscura has such a knack for finding the most interesting topics! |
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