I didn’t downvote as that would have caused the comment to be invisible, but do want to note that:
I find having to read comments that are written in an unnecessarily fight-y or dismissive style to be quite a significant tax on publishing blogposts, increasing the cost of publishing a blog post by 20% or more.
There are almost always easy alternatives to that style of language. Like, I am (clearly!) pretty anal about grammar issues in a way that’s ripe for gentle ribbing—seems like an emoticon-laden joke would have conveyed the same sentiment in a nicer way. Or the direct approach could have been simply saying, “I think the paragraphs on hyphenation could have been relegated to a footnote or appendix” (which seems very reasonable).
I didn’t downvote as that would have caused the comment to be invisible, but do want to note that:
I find having to read comments that are written in an unnecessarily fight-y or dismissive style to be quite a significant tax on publishing blogposts, increasing the cost of publishing a blog post by 20% or more.
There are almost always easy alternatives to that style of language. Like, I am (clearly!) pretty anal about grammar issues in a way that’s ripe for gentle ribbing—seems like an emoticon-laden joke would have conveyed the same sentiment in a nicer way. Or the direct approach could have been simply saying, “I think the paragraphs on hyphenation could have been relegated to a footnote or appendix” (which seems very reasonable).