Tricolon Abuse
Sentence StructureOveruse of the rule-of-three pattern, often extended to four or five. A single tricolon is elegant; three back-to-back tricolons are a pattern recognition failure.
Examples
“Products impress people; platforms empower them. Products solve problems; platforms create worlds. Products scale linearly; platforms scale exponentially.”
“identity, payments, compute, distribution”
“workflows, decisions, and interactions”
“These are design flaws, not syntax errors. They compile. They might even work. But they're code smells.”
Tags
rule-of-threeparallel-structurelists