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> I’ve seen young writers contort their prose into incomprehensibly pretentious muddles, all in a disastrous bid to sound more erudite than they are. This seem
by bstpierre 14y ago
> I’ve seen young writers contort their prose
into incomprehensibly pretentious muddles, all in
a disastrous bid to sound more erudite than they are.
This seems somewhat self-referential. I'm not afraid of big words, but it seems like the article (especially making the point she's making) could have been written in simpler language.
Though, with a site name like "cognoscenti", I guess you have to maintain a certain proportion of multisyllabic vocabulary.
- wildgift 14y agoI think the writer was being intentionally "smart" in that first paragraph to underscore her point. It's one long sentence with too many clauses; though it's not muddled, it's definitely more challenging to read than the paragraphs at the end of the article.