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You seem to be suggesting that it's good writing style to make your reader struggle as if with a foreign language?
by sideshowb 2y ago
You seem to be suggesting that it's good writing style to make your reader struggle as if with a foreign language?
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoMy original example was going to be, a young person reading an adult book with a large vocabulary. I decided that might come off as rude, so I changed it, and maybe lost some impact. Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not obligate all authors to write to your reading level.
- sideshowb 2y agoI guess I don't interpret bmacho's comment as relating to disability, just a general objection to excessive weird words a la https://xkcd.com/483/ https://xkcd.com/483/
- Suppafly 2y ago>Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not obligate all authors to write to your reading level. This, although it's not even always a disability related issue. Sometimes things in life aren't made for you, and you'll be happier understanding that. It's similar to complaining that an advanced mathematics textbook wasn't understandable given your baseline understanding of maths. It's not being written for you.
- CamperBob2 2y agoEver read A Clockwork Orange? Guessing that didn't go over well with you.
- sideshowb 2y agoOh that was great. In no small part because Burgess's slang is rooted in real etymology so it's not entirely a foreign language so much as creative use of our own. Snowcrash is similar in this respect.