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Stop using big words.
Stop using big words
Colton Wood
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David James
I agree with his observations, but not with why those "puffed up" words shouldn't be used. For me the main problem isn't that it takes up more time. The issue's an aesthetic one and what those words imply about the person using them. In a way it's good that people use those words because they're like easily-readable signs hung around the necks of phonies, conformists, simpletons, or hucksters.
Jason Scott
how did he not get eternally shit on for this after writing something with the lexical fuckery of infinite jest?
Adam Ramirez
there's no lexical fuckery in ij, your just a brainlet
Carson Parker
>>For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant quality of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.
>Gotta love the insertion of “per diem” in the first sentence. It’s almost like that hep cat is jivin’ my own groove, dig! (Speaking of reinforcement, perhaps Wallace would not have been so personally self-conscious if his own use of language were a bit less self-conscious and forced?) There’s nothing inherently wrong with using slang in otherwise erudite writing, but Wallace’s idiolect is so wooden, in the way so many Academics tend to be wooden, that there’s no real grace in the way he does so.
Eli Martin
This is peak hypocrisy, I still miss that nigga tho
Robert White
isn't this just a way to smugly 'out-do' people who try to 'out-do' those with smaller vocab?
Jaxon Perez
vanity of vanities, all is vanity
Adam Price
No, it isn't trying, it is outdoing them. In that particular way, at least, he is superior.
Brayden Campbell
Beckett had the same thing he called "the path of subtraction" - the simpler words the better
I think amateur writers like to hide behind these smart words because it makes them seem really smart for a dumb reader. If you look at whatever prose you consider to be sublime you will most likely notice that it it made up of very common and simple words - mark of a professional writer