• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    12 days ago

    What’s up with the incorrect sentence order? Letters and words are in the correct order but sentences are reversed? Why the inconsistency

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        12 days ago

        Self-evident, but thank you. My question is about why.

        English media, including the media on the website you’re reading right now, is arranged left to right. Adherence to this rule is what makes our language comprehensible. These grammatical rules are not impediments; they are the foundations of understanding.

        Violating them is done with specific purpose in mind. Anagrams are a puzzle in which the order of letters is scrambled, and the player must correct it. In this case the violation of the rule is a game, valuable because it provides enjoyment to the player.

        Although I appreciate your quick response, I am looking for a more thorough one. If this arbitrary and meaningless syntax violation has any redeeming qualities I’m not seeing them. But thanks again.

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            12 days ago

            It’s not overthinking to question the usefulness of blatant disregard for functional systems. You’re throwing away something that works perfectly well, and you haven’t given a single convincing reason for it. That’s not me overthinking, that’s you failing to explain the violation.