Is Douchelini in Jail Yet??

[Veritable Quandry]

We’re still not going to hold public office, you high fallutin’ city slicker.

Frites?

That's a given. One of my graduate advisors once described me as "the apotheosis of urban cool." Part of the "what hell are we doing in Arkansas" seminar.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is what I teach Engineers to do. To communicate effectively to multiple audiences. I teach them not to dumb content down, but to effectively chunk information and use plain language to describe complex topics.

The blogger has a simple rule that works to organize his thoughts. But that does not make it the most effective way to communicate. He simply never learned to write effective paragraphs.

When he writes columns in the Financial Times* and elsewhere, he uses normal paragraphs, which I assume he also does in his forthcoming book on Brexit, to be pubished by Oxford University Press in 2025. He chooses to write the way he does in his blog for the reasons he outlines in the post to which I linked, but he can certainly write in paragraphs when he feels like it.

*The FT, for whom he writes at the moment, is ferociously paywalled, but here's an older example from when he wrote for the New Statesman:

Putting right the wrong done to Alan Turing

Why there may be a better alternative to a “statutory pardon” for the Enigma code breaker, who was prosecuted over his homosexuality in 1952.

www.newstatesman.com

Evernote link

 

[Essence Lumin]

When he writes columns in the Financial Times* and elsewhere, he uses normal paragraphs, which I assume he also does in his forthcoming book on Brexit, to be pubished by Oxford University Press in 2025. He chooses to write the way he does in his blog for the reasons he outlines in the post to which I linked, but he can certainly write in paragraphs when he feels like it.

*The FT, for whom he writes at the moment, is ferociously paywalled, but here's an older example from when he wrote for the New Statesman:

Putting right the wrong done to Alan Turing

Why there may be a better alternative to a “statutory pardon” for the Enigma code breaker, who was prosecuted over his homosexuality in 1952.

www.newstatesman.com

Evernote link

Innula, you are perhaps the poster with the most precise and exact wording on our little VVO board (certainly not me so I feel nervous criticizing him!) His writing is much better here but it is still so sloppy. Many, many sentences beginning with And, quite a few beginning with But or So. Bleah.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Innula, you are perhaps the poster with the most precise and exact wording on our little VVO board (certainly not me so I feel nervous criticizing him!) His writing is much better here but it is still so sloppy. Many, many sentences beginning with And, quite a few beginning with But or So. Bleah.

You asked "what is with the one sentence equals one paragraph writing style?".

Since I remembered he'd once replied to a similar question, I provided his explanation for why he writes his blog the way he does. You don't have to like his style, but you asked, and that's his answer.

 

[WolfEyes]

Writers who are inconsistent with their writing "style" won't keep me as a reader for long. That was the first time I'd ever seen his blog and it will be the last. I tried reading it but it's too discombobulated, jumping from one idea to the next without any fleshing out for understanding. It's like trying to hit a gnat at 100 yards with a scatter gun (aka sawed-off shotgun).

 

[Essence Lumin]

You asked "what is with the one sentence equals one paragraph writing style?".

Since I remembered he'd once replied to a similar question, I provided his explanation for why he writes his blog the way he does. You don't have to like his style, but you asked, and that's his answer.

Thank you for that. I went into my train of thought about writing and derailed the subject.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Casey Pelous]

Defense: Ms. Pelous, can you fairly judge the defendant?

Pelous: After WWII, at Nuremberg, the US appointed an inexperienced hangman for the convicted Nazis. He botched the jobs. It was ... not pretty.

I have never hanged anyone. I volunteer.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

After WWII, at Nuremberg, the US appointed an inexperienced hangman for the convicted Nazis. He botched the jobs. It was ... not pretty.

Do you have video of this?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It's just a short drop and a hard stop.

 

[WolfEyes]

Huh. I thought it was a hard drop and a short stop.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Short stop is baseball. That describes a fly ball to near center field.

 

[Free]

Hmm. And they're "conservatives," you say...

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Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of interpretation that seeks to determine the Constitution’s original meaning.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[WolfEyes]

Short stop is baseball. That describes a fly ball to near center field.

I know.

Have people lost their sense of humor?

 

[Beebo Brink]

Evernote link

Comedy gold! Thank you for postting this.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

"Grandpa bit the mailman".

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

That's a given. One of my graduate advisors once described me as "the apotheosis of urban cool." Part of the "what hell are we doing in Arkansas" seminar.

I just imagined your personal hell would be teaching a course on style to a class entirely composed of Joe Sixpack.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Rose Karuna]

This seemed like the perfect thread to post this picture! One can only hope right?