shh he's getting graded for it

holy shit god forbid someone should read something longer than two sentences what the fuck was I thinking

mayfuck quit tumblr

rbg: see nobody gives a fuck what you think doe, certainly not to that extent

omit needless words

write shorter paragraphs

#writingtips

that's unfortunate because what I have to say is more informed than 90% of what has been posted in this thread

holy shit god forbid someone should balk at reading a massive chunk of unsolicited opinion

sorry I don't bend to the will of the attention deficit digital aspergers generation


call me old school or unduly influenced by academia but I still believe that to make a cogent point you have to... you know, actually say something.

okay poindexter

let me put it another way

if you want people to read anything you write, you have to make it readable

SORRY I DON'T BEND TO THE blah blah blah you can posture all you like but you have no cause for complaining that other people don't want to give up their own time to indulge your refusal to craft your words

you are a side effect of academic essay word count requirements

universities should use declarative sentence quotas instead, then at least we'd have more people who knew how to get to the fucking point

*standing ovation*

bonus point for the double straw man, btw

rbg went on vacay to Israel and now has an informed opinion.

i went on vacay to brevity island and now i'm riled as fuck

rbg is the attention deficit digital aspergers generation

israel, schmisrael

sorry rbg but i think he may have a point here.

it's not about the length. it can be long if there aren't wasted words/sentences/clauses. but most people know those when they see them and tune out.

And that's when we went from Israel to fifth-grade reading preference. This thread has it all. I'm never leaving it.

^^

best thread in weeks

Are you promoting the use of unnecessary words

There are few things that annoy me more than people who take 100 words to say what can be said in 10

Like that guy who posted his music the other day. Did you like that guy?

Not that I've never done it. To be fair.

I don't read 80% of the drivel here anyway, but the choice isn't "either speak to me like a child or write like Tolstoy." Really I just thought it was funny how the thread immediately derailed to focus on writing style and technique.

Didn't see that guy doe. Was it in the music sub?

My favorite teacher in high school rejected minimum word counts. When someone would ask "how long does this paper need to be?", he'd reply "As long as your legs need to be to touch the ground".

I loved that.

Mrs. Eicher my 8th grade social studies teacher said it should be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but long enough to cover the essentials.

i've never had to write anything with a certain word count.

Every educational institution, no matter what level, has to have at least one teacher that's a total sarcastic smartass.

Word counts are really really really not good for vocabulary, I've found.