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by krschultz
6055 days ago
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Exactly. "Shit" doesn't offend me as word. Trying to find the authors point through the mindless repetition of any word is a chore. If "Shit" was replaced with "Stuff" it would still be a horrendous post. Example: "That doesn’t mean the [stuff] you don’t get isn’t great, and it doesn’t make you less of a [stuff]maker not to get it. Just know that if you don’t get [stuff], you’ve still got something to learn, and that oftentimes it’s worth taking time to find somebody enthusiastic enough about [stuff] to explain what about it he’s into. (This is called teaching. As a kid you were taught that teaching had to do with seating assignments, but that was wrong. Teaching is knowing enough about [stuff] both to like it and to make other people like it.)" If you use "is", "good", "stuff", or "things" more often than once per paragraph, you are not communicating clearly.
That is true whether you use the word intentionally or not. Since you used it so often intentionally it means you forced the word into places where there are better words that could have been used, detracting even further. Swearing doesn't instantly lead to good writing, it almost always leads to bad writing. And to say that since you are making a general point you must use general words a fallacy. You can be quite specific in word choice while still making a general point. |
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> If you use "is", "good", "stuff", or "things" more often than once per paragraph, you are not communicating clearly.
Right, if that's happening unintentionally. I'm baffled by the assumption that I just accidentally wrote the word shit a hundred times. It's not like I think swearing leads instantly to good writing.
In this case, though, the central point of the post is that we're not talking about a guide to doing X/Y/Z. This is something that's applicable for virtually everything. The repetition is intended to drive that point.