Follow up thought: I wonder if Claude is overtrained on academic papers, which often suffer the same kind of "prove how good I am at talking before getting to the point" prose.
replyMaybe just Calvin and Hobbes.
replyhttps://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ky81y/verbing_...
This is hilarious - this week Claude’s writing was getting so bad I had this exact comic come to mind.
replyBriefly considered adding “Verbing weirds the English language - stop it!!!” to its instructions.
If it was overtrained on academic papers it'd reiterate the point multiple times for structure. Instead, it's burying the lede seemingly just to pad.
replyIt’s way harder to read because most of Claude’s sentences are hardly communicating anything at all, or are just completely inscrutable. I feel like academic papers are just boring
replyThis just mimics what I call BusinessBro™ speech. It also goes the other way, they use verbs as nouns. "I know this is a big ask". "The solve for that is that we can...." When it was just my product owner in tech meetings, I'd mock him relentlessly "There's already a word for that, it's 'request'" or "Are you sure you didn't mean 'SOLUTION'?? words are hard man". (This was all in good fun, I still love the guy to pieces).
replyVerbing weirds languages (Calvin and Hobbes)
replyWhich is worse, when people noun verbs, or when they verb nouns?
replyThe is latters.
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