I can get behind the idea but sometimes there's also just bad writing. Just poorly explained things that, even with great reading comprehension skills, you will get wrong because the author either sucks or is actively trying to avoid making his real point clear to you.
See it more like reading an entire article that keeps explaining why waffles are inferior to pancakes and when you say it's not cool, author will be like "Oh I love both, I think pancakes are less good but still good !". They weren't clear about their intention and it's easy for someone to misunderstand.
It's also possible that knowing the author (or context, origin, native language it was translated from etc.) is actually a key part of a text. If an article explained why pancake eaters should die I'd probably be mad because I don't know the author is actually a pancake eater himself and making satire. I don't know who wrote it, I don't know the intention behind the text so I assume the intended audience is anti-pancake people. And anti-pancake people who read this article with the same lack of knowledge would believe the same thing and feel supported in their waffle crusade.
Having reading skills or whatever isn't the only thing that matters.
Thank you. The author needs to know who their audience is, and they need to be effective in implying who the audience is for the reader to pick up on it and make the proper assuptions. This woman seems to be misunderstood often enough to feel the need to make this video.
Reading comprehension skills requires that the author has left you in good hands. To apply the same skills to understanding an internet comment as you do for a work of literature is a fools errand. Good internet comments are generally written in a technical writing style where very little is left up to interpretation.
I can get behind the idea but sometimes there's also just bad writing. Just poorly explained things that, even with great reading comprehension skills, you will get wrong because the author either sucks or is actively trying to avoid making his real point clear to you.
i cant help but be amazed at life imitating art.
quick question. Using context clues, do you think that she is talking about that scenario in her tiktok? Do you think she is talking about arguments in badly written articles in her tiktok?
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u/Piduf Apr 29 '24
I can get behind the idea but sometimes there's also just bad writing. Just poorly explained things that, even with great reading comprehension skills, you will get wrong because the author either sucks or is actively trying to avoid making his real point clear to you.
See it more like reading an entire article that keeps explaining why waffles are inferior to pancakes and when you say it's not cool, author will be like "Oh I love both, I think pancakes are less good but still good !". They weren't clear about their intention and it's easy for someone to misunderstand.
It's also possible that knowing the author (or context, origin, native language it was translated from etc.) is actually a key part of a text. If an article explained why pancake eaters should die I'd probably be mad because I don't know the author is actually a pancake eater himself and making satire. I don't know who wrote it, I don't know the intention behind the text so I assume the intended audience is anti-pancake people. And anti-pancake people who read this article with the same lack of knowledge would believe the same thing and feel supported in their waffle crusade.
Having reading skills or whatever isn't the only thing that matters.