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Someone needs to tell that Erik Baker that using lots of big words doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a smartarse 15-year-old trying to
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Someone needs to tell that Erik Baker that using lots of big words doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a smartarse 15-year-old trying to impress their English teacher.
- andyjohnson0 4y agoIt didn't seem excessive to me. "pusillanimous" stuck out, but apart from that it seemed like fairly normal prose.
- dalmo3 4y agoThe text read like an inert tornado.
- kcplate 4y ago> First there was the fire, the smoke billowing infernally into the Appalachian night. It just kept burning. Days of insatiable flame. A black pillar of fumes took up residence above the town like an inert tornado. At its heart, we learned, was the corpse of a train, fifty cars off the rails To me, even Shakespeare’s Richard III didn’t begin with this level of overly flowery poetic structure.
- mikrl 4y agoThat’s some doubleplusgoodthink. Having more words for concepts leads to crimethink, ante-vapourisation.
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