a well regulated militia

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by jaguar
i simply don't have time to polish my posts. I don't see why that invalidates them.

It's just what I said...if it's not worth your time to write them well, it's certainly not worth my time to analyse (and too often, decrypt) and then respond, only to have you blow it all off with the likes of "Oh, it's not my *good* work" or . ."Sorry I'm incoherent, or went overboard because I'm getting no sleep".

As for polish vs. validity, when you write carelessly <br>
--either trivially so as with random spelling and erratic punctuation
<br> --or more deeply with vitriol or wild accusations,
<br>--or at the very deepest level by littering your arguments with enthymemes and classic fallacies of argumentation like question-begging, red herrings and straw-man arguments<br>
...you shirk work you were unwilling to do, leaving it to be done by the people reading your words.

In fact I'm busy with several projects of my own. But I don't consider writing for the Cellar to be "slumming" just because the software is bloggish. Why not take some time and compose your words (and your thoughts as well)...any given thread will still be here for the posting, when you're done.

Or if you really <b>don't</b> have the time, maybe you should just forget about it and concentrate on the stuff you consider more important.