NY Has Officially Lost It's Mind Bitch

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In my experience poor writing and muddled communication are so often associated with poor thinking that that is the way to bet.

It's funny that, because when I read you, I read a person with excellent grammar skills, a top-notch vocabulary... and terrible communication abilities.

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.

The shorthand I read in you is "I'm correct, because I'm very smart." Here you make that very point. And this annoys me; because the biggest lesson I have learned in my life is that my high intelligence and good education are great tools to have, but they entitle me to exactly jack shit.

No, you aren't correct merely because you're very smart. No, you aren't correct because you can write well. Don't you see all the people who are very smart and who can write well, who are making massive errors all the time?

(edit: I'm sure there are folks who read my stuff and think I'm doing the same thing. It's hard, because every one of us will read each other differently...)