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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: OWN STOCK who wrote (4357)	5/18/2000 12:55:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5853

<...he is so full of himself, he belongs in the company of Peacocks (his prose are like a geek who got ahold of a Thesaurus for the first time). > Steady on Own. That sounds like a case of Peacock Envy. There really isn't anything wrong with using big words. Dumbing vocabulary down to a series of digitized grunts is not good. Even Xena used the expression 'atavistic hostility' which would make many run for the dictionary. Actually, that wasn't Xena, it was Lucy Lawless in her real 3D character. Xena would NOT use such words or the tv land audience would quickly dwindle. I doubt GG uses a Thesaurus to come up with a fancy word. I don't mind getting hold of a dictionary to see what words really mean. I learned what "investor" means just the other day! Cool! Now I can aspire to be one. Mqurice

To: OWN STOCK who wrote (4357)	5/18/2000 1:05:00 AM
From: greedsgd_2000	Respond to of 5853

GUESS HARVARD REJECTED YOU? your insults speak loudly: "I am amused by GG...sometimes he delivers brain candy. OTOH, he is so full of himself, he belongs in the company of Peacocks (his prose are like a geek who got ahold of a Thesaurus for the first time)."

To: OWN STOCK who wrote (4357)	5/19/2000 7:53:00 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 5853

OWN STOCK, Re: "I am amused by GG...(his prose are like a geek who got ahold of a Thesaurus for the first time)." This would bring to mind a kind of writing which uses esoteric words willy nilly without creative purpose or meaning- hence simply getting in the way of lucidity for no good purpose. I can't imagine such a conclusion where Mr. Gilder's prose is concerned, save if the reader hasn't understood his meaning. I feel Gilders prose clearly, when understood, employs very well chosen words that are appropriately additive to his intended message and often witty in a manner perhaps not otherwise achievable. In short, his use of the language(and the thesaurus) is generally well crafted and certainly not akin at all to what I'd imagine coming from a neophyte geek using a thesaurus for the first time. Dan B