OT -- Re: random cover of a range

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Feb 17 01:44:26 PST 2009


"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:gndshs$1a2n$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> I'm a native English speaker, and even *I* find it very difficult to read 
>> that kind of writing. It's bad enough that I usually just don't even 
>> bother to try to read it and just move on to the next post/web-page/etc. 
>> There's plenty of things out there written with *good* language that it's 
>> just not worthwhile to waste time on the poorly-written stuff. Therefore, 
>> I see bad language like that as an effective way to make people not even 
>> listen to you.
>
> Like you, I just don't bother reading things that have poor grammar, 
> spelling, punctuation, are one giant paragraph, are all caps, etc. When I 
> have bothered to read one now and then, I find the thinking just as 
> disorganized as the presentation, and so a waste of time.
>
> Such is not *always* the case, it may be art.
>
> eecummings:
> =============================
> she being Brand
>
> -new;and you
> know consequently a
> little stiff i was
> careful of her and(having
>
> thoroughly oiled the universal
> joint tested my gas felt of
> her radiator made sure her springs were O.
>
> K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her
>
> up,slipped the
> clutch(and then somehow got into reverse she
> kicked what
> the hell)next
> minute i was back in neutral tried and
>
> again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg.  ing(my
>
> lev-er Right-
> oh and her gears being in
> A 1 shape passed
> from low through
> second-in-to-high like
> greasedlightning)just as we turned the corner of Divinity
>
> avenue i touched the accelerator and give
> ===========================================
>
>  And superdan plays ghetto-speak like an instrument <g>.

Oh my god, I'm rarely able to make any sense out of song lyrics (not that I 
usually mind), but that looks like someone took some already unclear lyrics 
and ran them back and forth a couple of times through a language translater. 
;) 





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