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Comment by zarathustreal | Hacker News Reader

Please don’t take offense at this my friend, it is genuinely constructive criticism. Slow down a little bit and re-read what you’re typing. I can’t understand half of what you’ve written here because it is so poorly done. It is a shame because I feel like you’re trying to share interesting information it’s just extremely hard to parse whatever it is you’re trying to say

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Interesting. I found the comment rather succinct and to the point. Maybe you are not the target audience.

That might be true, maybe you could help me understand what this means:

“Additions I would have I have benefited“

Other tricks I have benefited from:

I am afraid that this looks like a nitpicking. Even if you can't imagine what the original intent might be behind that sentence by the sentence alone, the contents of the bullet points make it clear what information they represent. So even if that sentence is dropped entirely, I wouldn't have had any difficulty understanding what the comment is about, and its useful information content.

>I can’t understand half of what you’ve written here because it is so poorly done. It is a shame because I feel like you’re trying to share interesting information it’s just extremely hard to parse whatever it is you’re trying to say

While their writing is not perfect English, I had no problem understanding everything they wrote.

I’m really having trouble parsing this bit, could you explain for me?

“Additions I would have I have benefited“

I thought it was "Additions I would have benefited from" but then reading them it is clearly "Additions I have benefited from".

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