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It's not just poor formatting, the person who wrote this simply doesn't speak English well. For example: And this majority has never been able to fathom or acc
by Locke1689 16y ago
It's not just poor formatting, the person who wrote this simply doesn't speak English well. For example:
And this majority has never been able to fathom or accept the loner a mentally sound individual with non-aligned sensibilities,who,for reasons genetic and/or nurtured,simply views the world differently,and correspondingly resides in it unlike the rest.Know man is an island,too.
- 10ren 16y agoIt's unnecessarily convoluted but correct, eg "accept the loner [as] a mentally sound individual" is a legitimate construction and "[K]now man" is a pun. Philosophers tend to write this way. It's just that it's not punchy and to-the-point, like business writing or advertising.
- Locke1689 16y agoKnow man is obviously a pun but there should be an as or a comma after loner. I'm a philosophy minor so I understand flowery language but I don't accept it when it confuses the point. Hume managed to be quite intelligible despite living hundreds of years ago.
- akshayubhat 16y agoWell he has Indianized English Grammatical style.
- kranner 16y agoThat's a nice little pun on "No man is an island."
- mikecane 16y agoWhen I cleaned up the quote for my blog, I did it as: "accept the loner: a mentally-sound individual with non-aligned sensibilities"