Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad
It's hard, because every one of us will read each other differently. But I always read you as trying to impress everyone with flowery prose. For me, it totally obscures whatever you were writing about at the time. More UG prose to slug through? Long sentences to decode, $1000 words where $1 words would do? What a pain in the ass, I'll bypass this post and nothing will be lost.
|
And you'd lose out thereby. I'm complex, but I'm worth it. Long or short, I impress. Angering the troglodytic -- because of what they are -- is simply part of the deal. I also anger the philistine, both at the start and in the follow-on, the conflict there being that they wish to stay philistines, and I don't think they should. This part of the ruckus is my screed against philistinism in the language.
Quote:
|
No, you aren't correct merely because you're very smart. No, you aren't correct because you can write well.
|
Of course not; I seek out the correct, and then write well about it.
Quote:
|
Don't you see all the people who are very smart and who can write well, who are making massive errors all the time?
|
And I hit them on it about as often as anyone, when I understand their error.