# Can anybody easily understand Leo Bloom? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203 "2018-06-16T14:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203/21 "2018-06-16T20:08:55Z")
Some of my posts are often confused, so perhaps I’m the pot calling the kettle black, but … > [@kayT](#): > > I have never found any of his posts incomprehensible, as far as I can remember. The one linked in the OP seems clear enough to me. What about it is not understandable, OP? 😕 Include me among those baffled by that OP. I _think_ he’s suggesting that some of the Thread Games threads have become more personal and he views that as a positive development. _Did I guess that much correctly?_ I’d have preferred that he make his point in a more straightforward way. And what’s with terms like “intra-OPs”? Is it supposed to tantalize us to guess what such words mean? One or two Dopers asked for clarification in a very polite way, and drew this insolent response: > [@Thread Games: Have the kind "questions" within threads, and responses, become more personal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-games-have-the-kind-questions-within-threads-and-responses-become-more-personal/816096/23): > > Tell me which sentences you don’t understand. Start with the subject line, which, yes, misses the word “of” before “questions.” Yes, the word “about”–doesn’t match “regarding”–but it was a lapse because “asked” and “answered” really should be handled differently, but the whole “asked-and-answered” is considered (roughly here) as one set, and I would not let that slide in formal composition. > … > Asked: See the large type sentence with the question mark. It announce the query, and the rest of the OP. Even if there is not a single query mark in the rest of the post. I’m sorry if the missing “of” tripped you up… Now I learn that, apparently, **Leo Bloom** isn’t incoherent because he has trouble expressing clear thoughts, but because it’s his deliberate stylistic fetish to appear incomprehensible? :eek: I’ll be interested to observe myself and see whether I read **Bloom** posts with greater or less attention in future. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203)._