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> Stop being a crotchety and elitist angry person ... Sounds familiar, like I just read an example of it :/
by possiblydrunk 4y ago
> Stop being a crotchety and elitist angry person ...
Sounds familiar, like I just read an example of it :/
- GeorgeTirebiter 4y agotakes one to know one (yikes). I do find it tough when readers attempt to deign a writer's mental state from some groups of characters strung together. Why, some might call that mindreading. '-)
- possiblydrunk 4y agoAnger isn't needed to make a good point! Politeness works just as well :)
- GeorgeTirebiter 4y agoI'm sorry, I'm not making myself clear. The Author generates strings of characters (that ultimately form 'words' and 'sentences' and 'paragraphs' in aggregate). These character strings are chosen by an author to suggest a 'frame of mind' in order to best get her point across. So when an author of fiction causes a character to say things that are interpreted as angry, it doesn't mean the author herself is, in fact, angry. Therefore, unless we know something not in evidence besides the author's strings of characters, drawing conclusions as to the writer's mental state is ... odd. Even for pieces of non-fiction.
- possiblydrunk 4y agoNot directed at your comment. But is calling a person a "crotchety and elitist angry person" necessary to the point being made? Seems a bit ad hominem to me.
- lantry 4y ago> when readers attempt to deign a writer's mental state from some groups of characters strung together this is how written communication works
- Dylan16807 4y agoSomewhat crotchety, but I don't think they come across as elitist.