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I hadn't heard of him before, just starting to check out his essays. Great stuff! Only gee, what an irritating and unfriendly style, throwing in a phrase in La
by yesenadam 8y ago
I hadn't heard of him before, just starting to check out his essays. Great stuff!
Only gee, what an irritating and unfriendly style, throwing in a phrase in Latin in every other sentence, or even entire section titles—as if all his readers will understand it? or not caring?—just makes it really bad prose, there's no way to get around that. And "the unwashed"?!
edit: "He'll be honing onto his target", "being a tag paranoid is probably a good idea", "You'r"...ah ok, the English is bad too. That was surprising, from someone posing as a master of language.
- userbinator 8y agoIt's funny how the perception of style has changed, reading Fravia's writings now has a similar feeling to reading a book from the early 20th century. However, I can safely say that he wrote far better than the majority of the other reverse-engineers at the time.
- self_awareness 8y agoThe target audience was a type of reader who would look something up when not understanding it. The whole point of this site was to enter it and to extend one's comfort zone.