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I don’t think it’s the lingo/shorthand but rather the fact that some of the sentences don’t parse at all.

It’s possibly to figure out what he meant, but it requires significantly more time than if the sentences were constructed “correctly”.

Missing pronouns are easy to fill in, but consider this sentence:

> But [I] want to use every opportunity to make Cloud Streaming more mainstream the better it is in the long run […]

As soon as I reach “the better it is” I feel a mental jolt because I expect a construction along the lines of “the more <X> the better it is” (apparently this is called a “correlative comparison”); even though I just read the word “more”, it didn’t fit into the expected construction, so I go back over the sentence to see if I misread it.



“…want to basically use every opportunity to make Cloud Streaming more mainstream. The better it [will be] for us in the long run [and] for all the strategic reasons we talk about”




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