I'm gonna get dinged for this, and I don't care.
Admitting that you like sounding arrogant doesn't make it OK. Just a little more honest.
Admitting that you like sounding arrogant doesn't make it OK. Just a little more honest.
Was it because it was hard to read? No. It was because it didn't matter.
It doesn't matter how much you water your prose down with caveats and exceptions and criteria and clauses, it turns out that there's still a percentage of people who won't read them and still flame you. It doesn't matter how humble a tone you strike, some people think you're being arrogant simply because you have an opinion.
It's really not worth gumming up prose with exceptions, because English doesn't have the requisite level of precision anyhow.
Of course, I don't follow this principle 100% either, but I've stopped stroking out about it. Better to say something clearly and be misunderstood than say something muddled and still be misunderstood.
I'm suggesting that they stop constantly posting articles that say, in essence, "Hey, world, you're doing it all wrong and we know how to do it right and you should take your cue from us. There's only one Right Way and we have a lock on it." You know, like when they cap on startups because "building a business" is The Better Way. As opposed to a different pursuit altogether.
Rather, I want to step back every so often and show others that real life isn't like this. That it's ok to be scared and unsure.
That this is a WRITING DEVICE and not reality.
1- the world needs more people who write like arrogant assholes (even if they're not actually assholes)
2- it's better to be pompous than to actually have a conversation
Because that's what you're up-voting. In case it's not clear.