tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490806120643804324.post2675082707670135021..comments2019-08-14T10:58:28.547-07:00Comments on Resistentialism Incarnate: On TeethJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16229649515127565797noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490806120643804324.post-28179413946696425562009-01-08T19:50:00.000-08:002009-01-08T19:50:00.000-08:00Sure. I did try shrinking the page width, and it ...Sure. I did try shrinking the page width, and it <I>looked</I> a lot better. Maybe this just seems recent because online newspapers are giving the articles more screen width? Except, it's not so much the one-sentence grafs that bother me as the fractured thinking they increasingly represent.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16229649515127565797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490806120643804324.post-4047005240650975652009-01-08T17:58:00.000-08:002009-01-08T17:58:00.000-08:00Having worked on a newspaper for a few years, I ca...Having worked on a newspaper for a few years, I can tell you that Andromeda is quite right: correct style for newsprint often calls for one-sentence grafs (sic - it's the technical term) because of how it looks when laid out in columns.<BR/><BR/>That said, you're absolutely right that the section you quoted is simply odious, and the Washington Post should know better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490806120643804324.post-37768406477564682402009-01-07T16:50:00.000-08:002009-01-07T16:50:00.000-08:00I see your point. But still, bits like,He expects...I see your point. But still, bits like,<BR/><I>He expects tooth regeneration "to be pretty common in the future."<BR/><BR/>Oh, but that's not the end of it.<BR/><BR/>How about genetically engineered teeth, like a shark's?</I><BR/><BR/>are just too common in this style. Sometimes it can be done well, to great effect, but usually not.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16229649515127565797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490806120643804324.post-74135593304179661502009-01-07T16:36:00.000-08:002009-01-07T16:36:00.000-08:00I was just thinking about the very short paragraph...I was just thinking about the very short paragraphs/white space thing, and realized...<BR/><BR/>OK. So it's totally annoying and indefensible when they're all one-sentence paragraphs, but one of the striking things about this article was that they <I>weren't</I>, actually; they just looked that way on the page. But we're reading them on screens that are <I>how</I> many inches wide? Put the exact same article into the width of a newspaper column and those paragraphs look a lot longer. Put something that's a reasonable paragraph height online into a newspaper column width, and the reader's eye freaks out from the lack of white space.Andromedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570669960490418748noreply@blogger.com