[l33tbro]

> But just imagine calling Picasso "the mercurial Spaniard" when talking to a friend. Even one sentence of this would raise eyebrows in conversation.

Why does everything have to be "optimized" with Paul? I'll take verbose misfires any day over rigid plain-speak.

[biorach]

He wasn't advocating rigid plain speak

[texaslonghorn5]

Ok, pretend you are Paul and then what should the author have written instead of mercurial?