Hi list I agree with Bob, and I don't really think it's about intolerance to "unfamiliar" words at all. Actually, it's the exact opposite: when reading such over-complexified prose, I feel like : "hey, I've already read similar blah blah thousand times before !". And I feel sooooo familiar with the usual lack of thought hidden behind these kinds of pseudo-concept aggregation that I don't even try to read carefully to see if the whole thing is actually insightful... To me (and I think Karl Popper also said something similar :) ), as a "corollary" (hehe), clever thoughts can almost always be written with common words and simple sentences.
> btw. what the hell does "your text is eloquence personified" mean? I think it more or less means : "your text is to eloquence what the other one is to confusion" Don't know if it's more clear... :) +++++++ Clément On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, mark cooley <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Simon for pointing out the obvious (I guess it needed to be > done). As for those whose eyes glaze over at the sight of unfamiliar > language - how do we learn anything to begin with if we shut off every time > we hear something unfamiliar. When we ridicule those using a different > vocabulary than we are used to (or want to bother with) we're really saying > that, "unless you use the words that I know already then I'm not listening." > > btw. what the hell does "your text is eloquence personified" mean? > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
