I'm not who you're replying to, but I agree with them. For my taste, it's a little too clever. It distracts from the subject of the text and instead draws attention to the form of the text itself and its author.
Worse than that, it's clunky-sounding and trips me up verbally.
That's subjective, of course, but I would have preferred if the author had left out this turn of phrase.
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I'm not who you're replying to, but I agree with them. For my taste, it's a little too clever. It distracts from the subject of the text and instead draws attention to the form of the text itself and its author.
Worse than that, it's clunky-sounding and trips me up verbally.
That's subjective, of course, but I would have preferred if the author had left out this turn of phrase.
I see what you mean (it doesn't quite work for me either), but it works for some people, so eh. I guess the sibling is right, it's subjective.