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…or why Jeff Goldstein only has a writing gig at PeePee Pants Media, which ain’t no gig at all:

One of the benefits of an hysterical, adversarial, and sensationalist media is that, blessedly, its inevitable and predictable insistance on the implied importance of every al Qaeda missive as a nail in the US imperialist’s coffin …

TBogg taunts. Jeff used 137 words. In one sentence. Too long. It won’t fit on bumper sticker. Or in Leftie brains. TBogg forget where he was. After 6 words. TBogg blogs good. No “big” words. Short sentences. Like for fourth graders. Or retarded Kossacks.

No blood for oil. Bush lied, people died.

Blog like that, Jeff.

Comments

  1. Preston Taylor Holmes wrote:

    Some people have way with words.

    Others. Not have way.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 10:49 am

  2. DUDACKATTACK!!! wrote:

    Nah….

    “Now watch this drive.” -Instant classic.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 11:17 am

  3. Rusty wrote:

    Me like TBOGG. Him makes senses.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 12:57 pm

  4. Big Worm wrote:

    Nah. The problem isn’t that Goldstein uses 173 words in one sentence. It’s that he uses 173 when 25 will do so the ill-educated will mistake prolixity for quality. Looks like it works.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 4:17 pm

  5. verplanck colvin wrote:

    Or Jeff could drop the elitist tone and write like it’s the 21st century, not the 19th.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 5:06 pm

  6. Jeff G wrote:

    I was tempted to go into a mini-dissertation on the difference between densely-packed and run on sentences; hard stops vs the softer stop of the semi-colon, or the abrupt direction change of the em dash, etc. — all by way of explaining to Big Worm how prolixity is not defined by the number of words, nor quality by the simplicity of the sentences.

    But then I realized I could do it in fewer words. So I’m going with, “**** yourself, knobguzzler,” instead.

    And Verplanck Colvin — equating an “elitist” tone with long sentences is a bit like equating a “intelligence” with offhanded allusions in comments sections to the literary writing styles of centuries with which you are clearly artistically unfamiliar.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 6:58 pm

  7. Big Worm wrote:

    I was tempted to go into a mini-dissertation about the fallacy of the excluded middle, all by way of explaining to Jeff G that while wordiness may not be the only criterion of prolixity, it is certainly one of them. But then I realized I could do it in a single link.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=prolix

    Your writing is tedious. It’s ok, I’m sure there’s something you’re good at.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 8:29 pm

  8. Vinnie wrote:

    I like pie.

    Posted 31 Jan 2006 at 8:56 pm

  9. Jeff G wrote:

    Feh. So I’ll scratch Big Worm off my Xmas list.

    Posted 01 Feb 2006 at 7:35 pm

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