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pmg101yesterday at 8:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.


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woadwarrior01yesterday at 10:51 PM

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

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moritzwarhieryesterday at 9:30 PM

Got it. No bullshit, no ceremony: just straight to the point.

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punk_ihaqyesterday at 9:37 PM

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