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re: If You Struggle Or Have Struggled With Depression Would Reading A Poem Help?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 1:48 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 1/23/20 at 1:48 pm to fr33manator
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It’s about the economy of words. If each word adds a specific, designed nuance to a bit of writing, paints a picture and elicits a certain feel, a mood, a cadence...then it can be warranted.
People get uptight about “6 dollar words”, but that’s mostly just unfamiliarity. You use the right word in the right place and don’t repeat yourself. Make salient, concise points.
Long winded means using a whole lot of words to convey little, (not counting when it’s purposeful)
I make it a damn point to make things worth reading and they aren’t always verbose.
The words of a man who loves the smell of his own odoriferous offgassing
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Posted on 1/23/20 at 2:03 pm to fr33manator
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ou are telling me that using Tolkien and Hemingway, two of the most famous writers and literally required reading (the Hobbit and The Old Man and the Sea) in high school, as examples of vastly different styles, is somehow flexing my linguistic nuts?
Has anyone seen Good Will Hunting? I am sure a lot of you have. Anyway, remember the part when they are at the Harvard bar and there was the Michael Bolton looking dude who was trying to be intellectual to pick up women at the bar?
That scene popped in my head after reading this.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 2:15 pm to fr33manator
No I'm with you. You have to sift through threads because so much redundancy is posted, a thread with a thought provoking message couldn't hurt. Passing it along in a way, which is ideal with a written word medium.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 2:30 pm to dukke v
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Wow. You are smarter than I thought
PJ. There will never be a better poem.. Ever.. than the one you wrote about Chris Beniot.
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