> writes too elliptically

> Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice

Wow, what a great way of phrasing this. Thanks for word-smithing what I've been wanting to express for so long.

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.

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anon7000 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It’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

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TheOtherHobbes 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe just Calvin and Hobbes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ky81y/verbing_...

	▲	alex_c 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is hilarious - this week Claude’s writing was getting so bad I had this exact comic come to mind. Briefly considered adding “Verbing weirds the English language - stop it!!!” to its instructions.

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bulder 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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nobleach 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This 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).

	▲	tasty_freeze an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Which is worse, when people noun verbs, or when they verb nouns?