Oh, I'm horrible when it comes to first draft writing (which is most of my online stuff).
I use too many commas, not enough periods, and forget to nest my semi-colons (though I do better with them than most).
I use (once getting praise for doing it "elegantly" at Obsidian Wings) ([{}]) and all sorts of things to try and keep my stream of thought as I thought it.
Which leads some people to abuse me. I was, just last week, called an illiterate, uneducated (IIRC) NITWIT [emphasis in the original, that much I do recall) because of it.
I too am prone to uppercase oddities, archaic usage. I have an odd mix of british, and american, spellings; because that is the way in which they look best, to me.
I am prone to emphatic sentence fragments and really short (if dense) paragraphs.
But, as is said in Communications Theory, "The meaning of the message is the message that's received" and I seem to do all right at the conveying content aspects of things.
So I think I can survive the brickbats of my detractors.
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I use too many commas, not enough periods, and forget to nest my semi-colons (though I do better with them than most).
I use (once getting praise for doing it "elegantly" at Obsidian Wings) ([{}]) and all sorts of things to try and keep my stream of thought as I thought it.
Which leads some people to abuse me. I was, just last week, called an illiterate, uneducated (IIRC) NITWIT [emphasis in the original, that much I do recall) because of it.
I too am prone to uppercase oddities, archaic usage. I have an odd mix of british, and american, spellings; because that is the way in which they look best, to me.
I am prone to emphatic sentence fragments and really short (if dense) paragraphs.
But, as is said in Communications Theory, "The meaning of the message is the message that's received" and I seem to do all right at the conveying content aspects of things.
So I think I can survive the brickbats of my detractors.
TK