Apologies in advance for not actually commenting on body hacking, but did you serve in the military? I'm trying to decide whether the writing style where you omit subjects and occasionally verbs comes from the military only, or whether it's more pervasive.
Nope, no military service. I do make a point of refining my writing style, with an underlying avoidance of repeating words leading to a reliance on implied words. Comes in part from frequent blogging, where reader attention spans are short and criticism for imperfection & incompleteness abound - to wit, high density content pays off. I've also always been of few words, to the point where one friend dubbed me "Noun Verb" because I tended to talk that way. My software is similar, concentrating on terse clarity, heavy on references and semantic implications. I'll spend a lot of time minimizing what's published, be it English or C++. Music of Philip Glass & other minimalists was rather influential and formative.
I know this is getting really tangential, but prolongued exposure to the Japanese language (where they usually drop the leading I/he/she/we on a sentence) has made me start doing this myself fairly often in written communication, ala "sounds good, arriving soon."
I must admit, I rarely read comments the length of your original one (in a rush / short attention span; like you said). Once I started reading the first few lines, however, I found myself unable to stop and I ended up reading the whole thing.
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Apologies in advance for not actually commenting on body hacking, but did you serve in the military? I'm trying to decide whether the writing style where you omit subjects and occasionally verbs comes from the military only, or whether it's more pervasive.
Nope, no military service. I do make a point of refining my writing style, with an underlying avoidance of repeating words leading to a reliance on implied words. Comes in part from frequent blogging, where reader attention spans are short and criticism for imperfection & incompleteness abound - to wit, high density content pays off. I've also always been of few words, to the point where one friend dubbed me "Noun Verb" because I tended to talk that way. My software is similar, concentrating on terse clarity, heavy on references and semantic implications. I'll spend a lot of time minimizing what's published, be it English or C++. Music of Philip Glass & other minimalists was rather influential and formative.
Upshot: it's just me.
I know this is getting really tangential, but prolongued exposure to the Japanese language (where they usually drop the leading I/he/she/we on a sentence) has made me start doing this myself fairly often in written communication, ala "sounds good, arriving soon."
I must admit, I rarely read comments the length of your original one (in a rush / short attention span; like you said). Once I started reading the first few lines, however, I found myself unable to stop and I ended up reading the whole thing.
So, I guess it works.