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"The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition"
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 9, 2012 at 04:44 PM
Fredy wrote:
>If you can hold your sentences, and your paragraphs short, it’s always better, and
>even in longer sentences and longer paragraphs, good style is to have them clearly
>constructed, and we all know this implies more work on them, than just write things
>down: It implies editing efforts (or to be really gifted from start, which makes great
>writers) - but please note, we’re a forum here, not the nrf, so please allow for some
>sloppiness.
Fredy, as far as I’m concerned, you’ve got me covered with the above statement. I can ask for nothing more, from all sides.
Here’s the deal: my time is limited, and English is not my mother tongue. I have found some very interesting points in your posts (e.g. re editors) which I would like to discuss and elaborate further. However, in order to find these, I have needed to delve into your posts for quite some time. I cannot afford to do this anymore.
Are you interested in making your ideas known, or simply exposing your mind flow? In the first case, I believe that facilitating interaction is the most effective way to do it.
It’s not an issue of Chris silencing you, far from it. We are grateful to Chris for setting up and supporting this forum, but he doesn’t own it in order to make decisions on who stays and who is kicked out (unless we get into spam, name calling and other actions with possible legal implications), and I’m sure he’d be the first person to say so.
Posted by Cassius
Sep 9, 2012 at 07:30 PM
The issue is READABILITY.
In high school, my son could not spell (he defeated word processors) and his grammar left something to be desired. Yet his stories flowed—they were a pleasure to read. He made As in English class. Now he is an author and senior video game producer.