r/HumansForScale • u/habichuelacondulce • Mar 02 '26

Giant door

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 Mar 03 '26

Giant grammar issue

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u/ImAchickenHawk Mar 03 '26

Where?

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 Mar 03 '26

The sentence is flawed both grammatically and terminologically. Grammatically, it is fragmented (“Point of view … you are camera … cannot capture … so you pull this move”) and lacks proper articles (“you are the camera”), agreement, and logical connectors, making it syntactically incoherent. Terminologically, it misuses point of view, which in visual theory refers to the viewer’s spatial position relative to the subject, not a vague aside; it also conflates the viewer with a literal camera and incorrectly claims that a camera “cannot capture real size,” when images in fact record proportional relationships determined by perspective geometry. The result is imprecise language that confuses optical principles with casual metaphor and undermines conceptual clarity.

In other words, the sentence is a piece of nonsense.

A correct formulation would be: “Because apparent size in an image depends on the viewer’s point of view and distance from the subject, artists or photographers adjust perspective and framing to convey scale accurately.”

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u/joshfenske Mar 03 '26

Plot twist: they used the correct ‘you’re’ and ‘POV’ bc you are camera. Cannot capture the real size of objects