Thread: Length of some comments

Woooooooooosh!

Quote from CaptDMO

I use "big words" sometimes.
They can supplant entire paragraphs if contextualized.
Maybe even inspire further exploration.
Alas, they're wasted more often than not.

This is why I suggest to folks here not to go overboard with fancy writing - it's missed by the majority. There's no point writing huge words that are simply out of the ordinary for most folk when perhaps one or two similar but more inclusive words will suffice quite adequately - and in doing so, reach a larger audience.

Am I missing something?

Is the way we write more important than what we say? The clumsy and the clever both serve.

Paragraphs
Are
Our
FRIENDS.

Excellent point -reading rambling writing is hard work.

This is why I suggest to folks here not to go overboard with fancy writing - it's missed by the majority.

Totally agree Karl. But sometimes members are not writing for the majority. They are taking issue with other members that may have insulted or misrepresented them.

Outdoors (you have gotten better) and samofsons, I request that you two TRY to capitalize the first letter at the beginning of your sentences. Please.

IMHO 'Outdoors' writes succinctly. 'Samofsons' is prone to ranting but there's generally a germ of truth in what he says. I'd rather look beyond the disenchanted man and learn what alienated him.

If it has to come down to the English language and grammar to judge the value of a man, I can only say that using corrupted terms like "gotten" harks back to archaic German language influence on the early US settlers.

English is English. All over the world they want to play. They have no interest in the language as a cultural construct. Proficiency in English is merely a means to an end - and the end is a business deal.

The best possible option is for men to stop 'writing' and start 'doing'.

Writing merely invites criticism of the length, semantics and grammar of your posts.
Accounts of what you actually did, in real life, are fascinating and nobody gives a f**k about your grammar and spelling.

Do we really want to get to back to whether size is important?

Hmm, graphic commnets - that could be interesting.

The series of book "A graphic guide" published by icon books use this techinque to get across really difficult issues with great success!

Quote from Marx

There's no point writing huge words that are simply out of the ordinary for most folk

Competently communicated. Why deploy voluminous words when diminutive ones will suffice?

Quote from Douglas

Competently communicated. Why deploy voluminous words when diminutive ones will suffice?

Will you please stop making me choke on my drinks!

I concur that a display of hubris in the form of esoteric lexical resources is all Greek to me. :-)

But for centuries, that's what a 'classical education' was all about - separating the educated elite from the masses by a language code that is carefully preserved. In writing at least, accent doesn't give us away.

In speech, British folk can't can't compose three or more sentences without the listener knowing where they come from (within 50 miles or so), their education level and their arbitrary social class - and possibly how much money they make.

"Good" writing need not concern us here. Ideas, reactions, experiences and strategies should be listened to. The quality of language is secondary.

But you still made me laugh!!

You know what they say, big words, big..

Quote from Missy-A

You know what they say, big words, big..

What do "they" say Missy? And who exactly are "they"?

It's tiring to criticize your semantics if you actually and sincerely want to say something important.

Who are THEY? Why should we listen THEM?
And who gives a Tinker's cuss about what millions of idiots (THEM) repeat without thinking?

Sorry if I seem to always pick on you. It's not personal. For some inexplicable reason you usually head for the weakest argument.

Quote from Duran

It would appear so lol...

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Quote from Yan Yan

Sorry if I seem to always pick on you. It's not personal. For some inexplicable reason you usually head for the weakest argument.

LOL, oh you're sorry alright...

C'mon I've been a willing participant with Dad Savage and Percy's elongated threads where the more information was bliss to us historical buffs, rather than it being some deliberate oppressive tool to deprive others less understanding to contemplate beyond.

I understand the basic (modern and convenient) premise outdoors is advocating, but I naturally repell against anything which seeks to filter humans and put it into a restrictive box, where how we naturally express ourselves has a built in limitation. If someone makes a lengthy post, you have the choice to respond or not. Democracy cannot be condensed into a set number of words allocated to certain members. It just is. And free people have the option to do so or otherwise.

Wow?

Quote from James Huff

Wow?

Nah.

Quote from Yan Yan

I concur that a display of hubris in the form of esoteric lexical resources is all Greek to me. :-)

Outside of the Greek pun, that didn't even make sense.