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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (45698)7/15/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
What "arbitrary judgment"??!! What "arguments"??!!

Do you disagree with the following (which is all that I have written on the subject)? And if so, in what way is it "arbitrary," "minute," and "petty"?

To: Steven Rogers (45610 )
From: jbe
Wednesday, Jul 14 1999 9:10PM ET
Reply # of 45703

Let me make one obvious point here: published writing is not, ipso facto, good writing. In fact, most published writing is pretty bad -- especially stuff published exclusively on the web. And academics are the biggest sinners of all.

In my opinion, the best way to determine whether particular posters are good writers or not is to read what they post here. Of course, they are not likely to take as much care with their posts as they would with something that they plan to publish. But that means you can get an even better idea of their "native" writing style. After all,
there are no editors around on SI to prune out crooked sentences and to pretty up the text!
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