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songbird wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote: You have some interesting things to say and you have clearly thought about them but you do yourself a disservice in your presentation. your attention is appreciated, your responses read if i'm still alive to press the key or click the mouse, but i'm unlikely to change my writing style to your satisfaction. I am not the one who should be satisfied with what you type. I only point out the problems I see in case you didn't realise they were there. If you know already and don't care there is nothing I can do about it. considering much is wandering OT of r.g.e. i'm quite happy to drop much of it. Your postings are often made up of very long one-sentence paragraphs all in lower case. grammar takes a backseat and howls to the music of wurlds colliding. Your grammar is fine, it's the layout that is the issue. her knickers about her sneeze her shoes in a bundle and (to be true to this group) a rhubarb pie on the dash. ... more seriously, words and ideas first, am i clear enough that you understand what i'm aiming at? Yes you are clear. If you can achieve clarity why not ease as well? or if i am confusing, you can ask questions and we can have a conversation (instead of throwing links back and forth as seems to be what is happening to usenet these days). paragraphs are for formal writing, this isn't that kind of writing. Sorry no, paragraphs are for readability as is sentence length or having discernible sentences at all. The way the words appear on the page determines how easily they are read because (except for very slow readers) we read in chunks of words. i'm here to have fun and talk, not write papers for publication. some of my aim is to be entertaining and playful while also being challenging. Good. Why does that exclude ease of reading? You may think that messy old usenet doesn't require your finger to ever hit the full stop or the shift key but we will read more and skip less if you employ them. i like being little. i am keeping my ego on a leash, don't encourage me to get all formalic like the big ants in the amazon do. they scare the shit outta me, always marching, always eating, and oy veh the smell! May I also suggest that you adjust the line length of your newsreader as it wraps lines rather short, which is hardly good for your text but it mangles the quotes because they are then chopped twice. oh, ok, i didn't notice i'd chopped at 65 instead of 72, i've now adjusted it upwards. i'm still testing out my linux side setup for slrn so as soon as i get that working the way i like it i will be switching newsreaders... at this rate it will be a few months yet. i'm in the middle of too many projects and gardening season is on. peace and good evening to all, songbird And goodnight to you. David |
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