Droopy wrote:Its odd, because the post BA level French philosophy class I took in 2008 required a great deal of writing, including a fairly large thesis paper for the final, which my philosophic teacher - a committed radical leftist and scholar of postmodern thought - saw fit to give As to at every possible opportunity.
Yeah, I don't care, but postmodern writing is notorious for being unnecessarily dense. So at least this made me chuckle.
You tend to use what appears to sound to you like sophisticated vocabulary poorly. You often use
a lot of redundant words and phrases. Years ago you would misuse jargon and more complicated vocabulary so consistently that it was more sad than annoying. To your credit, you have improved this significantly. But you still err enough that it doesn't come across well. You also often will opt for the "fancy" word over a more plain one when the plain one would communicate your idea more clearly.
You frequently try to shoehorn in intellectual sounding references when they are awkward or irrelevant.
On top of that, most of your posts are far more bluster than they are content. You have a habit of being frequently wrong - really wrong - and tend to project your faults and the faults of those you support onto objects of criticism.
All this together makes you look like someone desperately trying to sound learned when you aren't. There are very good writers here. Look at how they write.
Others have also mentioned to me over time, regarding my talks (given in Church), things said in conversation (since I was very young, I might add), and writing, here and in other venues, that they appreciate the intellectual scope, philosophical depth, sophistication, and creativity of my thought and articulation of those thoughts...
...what you think of my thoughts or writing is, as one might conclude at first glance, little more than an artifact of your own intellectual temperament and internal psychological dynamics.
Case in point. I realize so nakedly criticizing you this way, especially when what I'm saying is true, is a rough thing for me to do. I wouldn't feel comfortable with it if not for your tendency to be a condescending jerk. I have no desire to get into a pissing match with you about our relative brain power.
PC! blah blah
[/quote]Will has a pattern of misogynist behavior. I think the case for that has been laid out in detail and I feel no need to repeat it.