| | | You agree or disagree or you do not understand.
I find that categorization to be insufficiently rigorous.
The first level of the tree, I submit, is understand vs understand. For things you understand, you can agree or disagree...or neither. The neither category is important. Maybe you just find it interesting or clever or touching or informative or whatever. Not everything written calls for agreement/disagreement.
For things you don't understand, the next level is whether it is objectively understandable or not understandable. If it's understandable and the reader doesn't understand, then the problem is with the reader. But if it's not understandable, the problem is with the writer.
So then I get a one line insult bla bla mistake, gibberish.
Your post to which I am responding is understandable and I immediately understood it. Other posts, not so much. Often your posts do appear as gibberish. Often the variety of gibberish is word salad. And sentences may be over complicated.
gibberish: unintelligible or meaningless language
word salad: a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases
I would suggest, when someone doesn't understand your writing, that before you deem them stupid or lazy you try diagramming the sentences. If you can't diagram them, they probably need to be reworked to make them intelligible. And instead of reacting to a perceived insult, consider it criticism. Criticism is not inherently insult. We can choose how we take it. |
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