goddamn, those sentences are awful. i dont know whether its because they are from an US-american english text rather than a british one or whether its the authors way oft writing, but judging reading comprehension with this is nuts.
The above passage, for example, comes from Game Feel, a game design guide written by Steve Swink.
Steve Swink (and his editors) needs to be forced fed a copy of his book.
Being able to design games doesn’t mean one can write about designing games.
I’m an American born and raised. I couldn’t get that sentence in a paragraph question to save my life.
I feel like it would have been better to let AI write it as the passage would benefit from using some em dashes. It’s so poorly written.
A video game has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space. (1) The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.
Back in university I had a couple of classes in linguistics and “medieval German”. At the end of every semester I had to write 1-3 papers, each one roughly 12 to 15 pages long. This was a requirement to questions that sometimes could be answered in like 3 pages.
So I started stretching one sentence into two. Two into four. They got longer and longer. Until they read like the most brain dead, pretentious shit imaginable. And I got goooood at it. So I recognise that crap when I see it. The author did exactly the same. Fuck that guy.
I always dislike these questions where you’re expected to have the answer partway through the passage to meet time requirements.
What if the last sentence reverses the conclusion and the structure of the exam leads you to miss it?
The answer could most certainly be 4 as well as 3.
Holy shit, my iPhone keyboard has changed size and the keys aren’t quite where they were before. Is this from the latest update or did I fuck up some settings?
