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maxlohtoday at 4:10 AM1 replyview on HN

I would say so.

There is a lot of noun phrase usage in places where complete sentences are expected. Articles (a, an, the), transition phrases and even subjects are mostly dropped, and the sentences are too long without a break.


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perching_aixtoday at 6:52 AM

As a sibling comment mentions, this is a chain-of-thought leak, in part evidenced by the excessive use of Markdown formatting symbols. In my judgement, all occurrences of noun-phrase fragments are thus better understood as either ortographic mistakes, or stylistic choices due to the language register it's trying to hit (i.e. note-taking, dictation), rather than grammar mistakes.

I do not spot any missing articles, and the missing subjects (as well as the debatable-to-be-missing transition phrases) too fall within the bounds of stylistic concern. Sentence length also.

Definitely not a pleasure to read mind you, but given that it wasn't meant to be read either, I'm not sure that should be surprising.