Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four

Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes is actually better to mix them.

  Example from Purdue Owl:

  Unclear: The club celebrated the birthdays of 6 90-year-olds who were born in the city.

  Clearer: The club celebrated the birthdays of six 90-year-olds who were born in the city.

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  • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How is that unclear?

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    • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      its a little ableist…

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But unlike eight 13 is above ten

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  • ftbd@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But 8% and 13% are both below 10

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So is 999%

      And I’ve just learned percent is under two layers of keyboard menus so that’s just fantastic.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you write thirteen per cent?

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• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This kills me, but its not as bad as the habit of new articles/print authors to switch between first and last names of the same person within a few sentences.

  They will introduce Jeff Snoms, and then refer to them has “Jeff” and “Snoms” interchangeably for no discernable reason. It gets really maddening when they are doing it with 3 or 4 people, so suddenly the story has 2x as many characters involved.

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  • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait till you read russian novels, where everyone’s got 3 names and 2 official nickname everyone is expected to know…

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    • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not to mention the fact that it’s written in russian!

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• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh damn, that is some nails on a chalkboard level stuff.

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do this to iterate people

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  • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they must find it quite repetitive…

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      God damnit. Ya know what. I’m not fixing it

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• subtext@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In general, use numerals to express numbers 10 and above, and use words to express numbers zero through nine.

  Example given:

  students were in the third, sixth, eighth, 10th, and 12th grades

  Your example does not follow the style guide and is an example of when to use digits

  Percentages 50% 75%–80%

  If you’re a professional writer, you should be following the style guide and this is explicitly spelled out by the APA.

  apastyle.apa.org/…/numerals

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The German standard is to write out everything up to 12 and as English also doesn’t say one-teen and two-teen that’s how I always did it. (why not tenty-one btw? be consistent your numbers are all weird)

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