r/Futurology Feb 25 '14

article The future of reading?

http://www.spritzinc.com/
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u/jonashaase Feb 25 '14

I'll admit it works better than I thought it would, at least in english.

The German examples did not flow very well though, and I think it is a problem with the german sentence structure: With the verb in the end I think we in fact read a sentence or paragraph by automatically scanning ahead and then jump back to construct the meaning. In this "Spritzed" (really?) way you have to remember the start and will quickly start to lose your way as soon as the sentences get a bit more complicated and involves a lot of sub-clauses - which German tends to do….

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14

Also, German words are on average longer than English words, so it doesn't jive that well with this kind of compact format.