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Bad writing is like pornography: I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
It seems fairly obvious where someone is writing for a specific effect and where they just don't know how to use their tools, even if they think they do. You see it with commas, too: they don't know what they're actually supposed to do with them, so they throw them in every time they take a breath when they read the sentence, and figure that'll work (it doesn't).
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