Is Grammar an Outdated Technology?(medium.com)
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Is Grammar an Outdated Technology?
https://medium.com/remotely-useful/is-grammar-an-outdated-technology-5fb7416c16a5#.6tdcpkbth
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I read this twice and... I'm afraid I still don't understand what it is trying to get across. I feel like the paragraphs were strung together by a Markov chain.
This is my summary of the article:
"Reads, sentences, phone. Work/Life balance. Feeling limited by mobile devices because grammar. Remove words. Cyborgs! More mobile devices, we've become cyborgs. Grammar is clumsy. Good user experience. Library searching. Latin sentence structure (SOV). Virtual Reality - technology needs to adapt."
Either I'm at fault here or I advise Ms. Megan to run this past an editor because whatever meaning that was meant to be conveyed was completely lost on me. I'm left completely confused.
This is my summary of the article:
"Reads, sentences, phone. Work/Life balance. Feeling limited by mobile devices because grammar. Remove words. Cyborgs! More mobile devices, we've become cyborgs. Grammar is clumsy. Good user experience. Library searching. Latin sentence structure (SOV). Virtual Reality - technology needs to adapt."
Either I'm at fault here or I advise Ms. Megan to run this past an editor because whatever meaning that was meant to be conveyed was completely lost on me. I'm left completely confused.
Really, in this day and age, everybody even vaguely technical should be aware of the fact that you can express more in a language with a grammar, than a language without a grammar. That's Chomsky's Hierarchy at it's most basic. Ignorance of that language hierarchy leads CxO's to believe that all any of their employee's need is a Windows laptop with "Word" on it.