Vladimir_M comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 23 October 2010 06:29:51PM *  6 points [-]

Alicorn:

"Ey's thus and such"

I find these invented pronouns awful, not only aesthetically, but also because they destroy the fluency of reading. When I read a text that uses them, it suddenly feels like I'm reading some language in which I'm not fully fluent so that every so often, I have to stop and think how to parse the sentence. It's the linguistic equivalent of bumps and potholes on the road.

Comment author: JGWeissman 23 October 2010 06:39:38PM 2 points [-]

After reading one story that used these pronouns, I was sufficiently used to them that they do not impact my reading fluency.

Comment author: Transfuturist 11 August 2013 05:51:28AM 0 points [-]

Link?

Comment author: JGWeissman 11 August 2013 06:48:23AM 1 point [-]

The story was Alicorn's Damage Report.