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  • adjective Alternative spelling of parsable.

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  • And the more instantly parseable the prose, the easier it is to integrate into the ongoing interpretative process, the easier it is for the reader to construct those abstract artifices of character, plot and theme.

    Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008

  • And the more instantly parseable the prose, the easier it is to integrate into the ongoing interpretative process, the easier it is for the reader to construct those abstract artifices of character, plot and theme.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Adam, you claim that "Her eyebrows climbed as she directed her gaze back to them, eyes black as her white-winged hair" is bad writing, and it plainly is; but it's comprehensible and parseable English, if clumsy.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Even with the parseable verb-noun combination of a curse such as "Fuck me!", the articulation is hardly aimed at communicating the content, not in the way that an imperative like "Eat your greens" is aimed at communicating the content -- what is to be done and what it is to be done to.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • Obviously a writer can minimise syntactic and lexical patterning in their prose, and obviously this is a good strategy for making the prose more instantly parseable.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Even with the parseable verb-noun combination of a curse such as "Fuck me!", the articulation is hardly aimed at communicating the content, not in the way that an imperative like "Eat your greens" is aimed at communicating the content -- what is to be done and what it is to be done to.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • The problem is that Facebook makes it nearly impossible to do this in an automated fashion because, as a technical barrier, email addresses are provided as opaque images, not as easily-parseable text.

    It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008

  • Obviously a writer can minimise syntactic and lexical patterning in their prose, and obviously this is a good strategy for making the prose more instantly parseable.

    Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008

  • In light of the news that the other candidates knew Edwards was dropping out yesterday, I think this is an even more disingenuous parseable than she usually comes out with.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters 2009

  • In light of the news that the other candidates knew Edwards was dropping out yesterday, I think this is an even more disingenuous parseable than she usually comes out with.

    What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters 2009

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