Line Size Matters (Audio🎧)
As a professional editor, I've enjoyed reading and editing lots of Journaly posts over the past month. I've also received excellent feedback on my own posts, and I thank everyone who has taken the time to help me.
Also as an editor, I'd like to offer a suggestion that will help you in reading your own language, as well as (almost*) any foreign-language post you read on here. When you open Journaly, resize your window so that there are between 12 and 15 words per line. This has a lot of advantages. If the line is too wide, your eyes will have a hard time focusing on the text because it makes it difficult to gauge where the line starts and ends. Also, it can make it hard to find the beginning of the next line.
However, you should be careful not to make the page too narrow. If your eyes have to travel back too often, that'll break your reading rhythm. Short lines tend to make readers become stressed and speed up their reading to the point that they miss important words and information.
The thing is that your mind normally becomes energized when you jump to a new line, but if this happens too quickly or too often, you begin to lose focus... and maybe even interest. Let's face it - a big block of text can be daunting in any language.
So give your eyes a break - resize your windows or screens, and enjoy what you're reading!
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*I won't pretend to know how this applies to languages such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc. that don't have an actual alphabet. You may want to research those separately if you read them.
Hi CocoPop! First, I'd like to say that it's really nice seeing you write in English, I mean apart from comments. Thanks for sharing this! This is an awesome trick. Reading this, I realized that I normally prefer to read on my phone and the reason is probably what you're talking about. Especially our wide-screen monitors can display very long lines, which makes it more difficult to read. Thinking more about it, I realized that popular platforms like Facebook and Instagram also limit words in a line by their design.
Great post! I resized and suddenly I felt more relaxed, which really stunned me. I hadn't realized before that I find long lines exhausting - but the difference is considerably.
@Linda: I don't know why I didn't notice it before. It makes such a difference. Glad it helped)))
@CloudyDe: Glad to hear it! Enjoy!))
By the way, I don't know why Journaly is putting those huge spaces between my paragraphs. I just wrote Robin and pointed it out. It should just be one space.
Thanks for the tip! But how do you re-size it?
@Rachel: You're welcome)) On my computer, I just grab one edge of the window with the cursor and drag it.
@CocoPop Many thanks for this really handy tip of yours. Yes, every so often I find a large block of text puts a lot of strain on the eye (on the mind as well ;-)) . @Rachel As an alternative to resizing the window, probably you can resize the text as well so it can fit in about 12-15 words.
Hi CocoPop, finally a text from you I can read and understand :) Thank you for sharing this, I'll give it a try right away!
Your English is ok, but not better than an American high schooler. I would give it 3 bars not 4 honestly. I confounds me that you're an editor in English due to the fact that your English has obvious grammatical errors that a 7th grader could pickup. I won't judge you too harshly though, clearly 'someone' walked into McDonalds ordered a Coke and thought they were American and spoke proper English.
Don't come for me and what I write when you have never even been in America for 5 freaking minutes
Love, Girl who hasn't been in a Chicano neighborhood for 4 minutes!
Good to know, Livvy, thank you!
@Caro and LingoBee: Glad you enjoyed it!))
@CocoPop No problem!
@CocoPop @LingoBee thank you!!
Now with audio!
Excellent audio! ¡Es muy agradable escuchar tu voz!
Gracias, Linda! Me encanta la idea de las grabaciones y espero que sean útiles para otros.
My god, with such a voice, you could read the telephone book and I'd still listen to it. But tell me, what are those background noises? It sounds like someone's walking around and opening and closing shelves! xD. And I imagined hearing a dog as well.
What a lovely compliment! I'm sure you heard all of those things. I have a professional microphone that picks up everything and I didn't have the muffler on it. Next time, I think I'll use some nice background music, which, by the way, has its learning advantages too.
Yes! I'm the ear. My name's Eardward xD. Okay, that one was quite lame.
Yes, please use some sort of elevator music :D.
hahahaha, will do!)))
I'm curious to hear if I'd be able to understand some things of those Russian texts of yours that I translated into English. Plus, I'd love to listen to your voice in other languages 😃
I was actually deciding which Russian post to voice when I read this comment 😉
I'm adding "(🎧)" at the end of all the audio posts, and now that Linda and Tomo are doing it as well, it's a great way to find those posts in the filtering function (example: https://ibb.co/t82nwwT). I'm mentioning this, in case you want to use it as well :). It adds a fast way to immediately detect these posts in the dashboard as well.
Dicho y hecho!
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Really nice thanks for sharing that! I agree to what the others have said, you're voice is very pleasant to listen to :)! Also I like the elevator music idea!
Thank you, Dustin!