OT -- Re: random cover of a range
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Feb 17 00:29:51 PST 2009
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:
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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
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And superdan plays ghetto-speak like an instrument <g>.
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