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Today, I received the following comment to this entry in my LJ:
However, much as your writing style serves your masterpiece, SLS, fabulously, has anyone ever told you that it is unnecessary to use pages of text to belabor a point that has already been made in the first paragraph? Maybe it's just me, but at the beginning of your entry, I was snortling and nodding my head along with everyone else, but by the end I was thinking "how many times is she going to state the same thing??" Just a thing to bear in mind--unless perhaps it's the ghastly 30-second attention span I have today (although I'm leaning towards the opinion that it's not).
All right, then. I wasn't aware that the stylistic format of my journal entries was up for critique. Content, certainly, but not format. As far as I'm concerned, a person's LJ is the one place on the Net where they can say whatever they please in whatever format they choose to present it without some tight-assed nabob shrieking, "Use MLA format", or "Cite your source." It's just a place to free-think ideas, an endless sounding wall with a billion ears. Your ideas may get chewed to weeping dust by people who disagree, and it may behoove you to cite sources if you're wading into a hot-button issue, but you can bring your ideas to the table in a cryptogram for all I care.
Which is really an unecessarily complex way of saying that if you don't like my LJing style, there is the virtual door. Don't let it hit you in the swollen head on the way out. I am not participating, insofar as I know, in the LJ Style Games, and I have never yet received fabulous cash and prizes for writing the most concise entry ever. Entries are not drabbles or term papers with stringent word counts. If I want to make a single point and beat that badboy into bleeding unrecognizability with a verbal shovel while pissing adjectives and spitting verbosity like a cobra, I will. Anyone who is uncomfortable with that may, of course, exercise their Internet rights and click the "Back" button at any time.
Wow. See that? I do believe it all comes back to the small matter of personal responsibility that I referenced in the entry in question. Who'd have thunk it?
Or, if the concise version of the entry is more to your liking, allow me.
Fuck you.
Guera Academic Sextathlon Tally: 2/6 papers completed.
SLS51 Word Count: 5,024
However, much as your writing style serves your masterpiece, SLS, fabulously, has anyone ever told you that it is unnecessary to use pages of text to belabor a point that has already been made in the first paragraph? Maybe it's just me, but at the beginning of your entry, I was snortling and nodding my head along with everyone else, but by the end I was thinking "how many times is she going to state the same thing??" Just a thing to bear in mind--unless perhaps it's the ghastly 30-second attention span I have today (although I'm leaning towards the opinion that it's not).
All right, then. I wasn't aware that the stylistic format of my journal entries was up for critique. Content, certainly, but not format. As far as I'm concerned, a person's LJ is the one place on the Net where they can say whatever they please in whatever format they choose to present it without some tight-assed nabob shrieking, "Use MLA format", or "Cite your source." It's just a place to free-think ideas, an endless sounding wall with a billion ears. Your ideas may get chewed to weeping dust by people who disagree, and it may behoove you to cite sources if you're wading into a hot-button issue, but you can bring your ideas to the table in a cryptogram for all I care.
Which is really an unecessarily complex way of saying that if you don't like my LJing style, there is the virtual door. Don't let it hit you in the swollen head on the way out. I am not participating, insofar as I know, in the LJ Style Games, and I have never yet received fabulous cash and prizes for writing the most concise entry ever. Entries are not drabbles or term papers with stringent word counts. If I want to make a single point and beat that badboy into bleeding unrecognizability with a verbal shovel while pissing adjectives and spitting verbosity like a cobra, I will. Anyone who is uncomfortable with that may, of course, exercise their Internet rights and click the "Back" button at any time.
Wow. See that? I do believe it all comes back to the small matter of personal responsibility that I referenced in the entry in question. Who'd have thunk it?
Or, if the concise version of the entry is more to your liking, allow me.
Fuck you.
Guera Academic Sextathlon Tally: 2/6 papers completed.
SLS51 Word Count: 5,024