adiwan (adiwan)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-17 08:34:39 UTC

  1. I'm proof-reading a friend's paper that he intends to send to a conference. Of course it's written in English. I'm astounded by the amount of the unnecessary and abusive use of word fragments such as "as well as", "however", "itself", "moreover", "in order". Almost every sentence contains one of these next to a bunch of bad grammar and horrible typos. Just by stripping out these fragments the text becomes surprisingly a lot more readable.

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