Comment by jashkenas | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jashkenas | Hacker News Reader

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Just for kicks, folks, let's collect all of the adjectives, adverbs and qualifiers used in this post to describe ~AMP:

    * a leading format
    * consistently excellent
    * invest strongly in ...
    * well-lit
    * user-first
    * instant-loading
    * tightly-integrated
    * highly-optimized
    * great
    * well-lit
    * great
    * well documented
    * easily deployable
    * validatable
    * opinionated about user-first principles
    * fast development
    * constant adjustment
    * more important than ever before
    * invest strongly in ...
    * engaging storytelling experiences
    * pushing the boundaries
    * deep integrations
    * well under way
    * super excited
    * instant-loading
    * well-lit
    * great
    * continue to invest heavily in ...
    * continue to innovate on ...
    * incredibly excited
    * can't wait

I'm imagining a Dilbert cartoon, where this list is a cheatsheet of things you can say about your project to get approval from your pointy-haired boss...

Excellent lexical analysis :) Glad to know I wasn't the only one who couldn't help but cringe while reading this.

This reads like a page from https://www.amazon.com/Words-that-Sell-Products-Services/dp/...

Most of them are silly, some of them are true. It is super integrated, it is fast, and it is opinionated. User-first is debatable, but it's not exactly publisher first and it's definitely not (external) advertiser first. No idea what well-lit means.

I guess the takeaway is that the garden is great, build the walls higher?

Text editors should have a feature to warn about a high number of qualifies/adverbs: "you are using to many qualifiers and adverbs, you may look biased to your readers, it may be a good idea to remove or rethink some of them."

I suggest everyone use one of many popular & excellent tools to check your professional articles for excessive & unnecessary words & long or hard to read sentences, for example here are some amazingly free tools I really enjoy:

Web App: http://beta.hemingwayapp.com/

VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=travisth... (This uses open source libraries you can utilize to create your own version if you don't use VS Code)

We need an AMP version of Buzzword Bingo: http://www.businessbuzzwordbingo.com/

Happy to provide, buddy:

http://myfreebingocards.com/bingo-card-generator/results/w5z...

Bingo!

I applaud your well-lit, user-first attitude!

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