Well there's one of this one, and one of the other one. If we consider them to be in the same category, I guess they would be equally rare. Maybe the deaf whale can be considered more rare because it has a Wikipedia entry.
> There’s a lot the biologists don’t know about these songs. Like, uh, their purpose.
Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
>> Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
It's increasingly common in pop-journalism and click-baity content targeting social media. I'm not a big fan of it, but at least here it's conveying meaningful content - more often than not I see this style accompanying content swiped from Reddit with commentary that adds virtually nothing or even contradicts the content as though they didn't even read it fully.
Yes? It’s clear writing, it’s truthful and direct. You don’t like the style, but I’m sure there are many people who don’t like your preferred voice.
The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously.
Now everyone can be not taken seriously equally, each according to the weight of their words.
This seems like a reasonable humorous form of emphasis to me.
The full stop before "Like" is an intensifier to draw attention to that sentence. The "uh" indicates the author's surprise at how little the biologists know, which also intensifies the sentence.
[+] [-] rzzzt|6 years ago|reply
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
[+] [-] arthurcolle|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] hombre_fatal|6 years ago|reply
Is this really considered an acceptable way to write these days?
Incredibly sad to hear how there are <30 whales in this region. Especially when listening to one's calls. Wonder what kind of whale-to-whale range these songs have.
[+] [-] TallGuyShort|6 years ago|reply
It's increasingly common in pop-journalism and click-baity content targeting social media. I'm not a big fan of it, but at least here it's conveying meaningful content - more often than not I see this style accompanying content swiped from Reddit with commentary that adds virtually nothing or even contradicts the content as though they didn't even read it fully.
[+] [-] erikpukinskis|6 years ago|reply
The days of one acceptable voice in trade writing are gone, and that’s a good thing. It was creating a gate keeping effect whereby people who spoke well and clearly but not “right”—according to some ethnic cultural moors—were not taken seriously.
Now everyone can be not taken seriously equally, each according to the weight of their words.
[+] [-] NinoScript|6 years ago|reply
I guess it’s fine if your target audience includes people that will feel more confortable if you write like that.
To me it depends on the subject, for some stuff I just want facts; but for stuff I know less about, I tend to prefer reading in a more casual tone.
[+] [-] munificent|6 years ago|reply
The full stop before "Like" is an intensifier to draw attention to that sentence. The "uh" indicates the author's surprise at how little the biologists know, which also intensifies the sentence.
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