# Can anybody easily understand Leo Bloom?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203 "2018-06-16T14:04:57Z")\
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> [@kayT](#):
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> OK, then, can you explain to me what part seems hard to understand? I feel like this has been asked before and the answer seemed to be “because the OP is always hard to follow”. I certainly don’t mean to say that everyone who didn’t get it was asking for simple ideas simply expressed, but a few people did say if they didn’t immediately grasp the first sentence of an OP they would go elsewhere.
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> Obviously that was not you. So please, parse it for me if you can?

You’ve got to be kidding.

I’m also a professional writer and scientist, and Leo’s prose is quite difficult to follow.

> [@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/816096/1):
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> It seems to me that the intermittent topics within some Thread Game OPs as well as the _rai·son d’ê·tre_ of one entire OP have become a place where posters are asked and answered more or less truthfully (if the spirit of the players is in tune with the game) regarding the in-real-life facts and opinions behind the usernames.

What are “intermittent topics”? How is a raison d’etre a place? How can posters be both asked and answered in the same OP (or intermittent topics in the OP)?

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> I’m thinking (Feb 2018) of many intra-OPs (occasional group questions) in the last year or so [??] of **[Baker’s Dozen](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573445)** and, in particular, the brand new **[Have You Ever…?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848325)**, which is only like that in premise, and is an even better example of what I suspect is something new as a way of interaction in the forum.

Again, it is very unclear what “intra-OPs (occasional group questions)” is intended to convey.

Yes, it’s possible to get some sense of what is being asked after repeated readings, but it’s by no means clear. About 75% of the words are unnecessary and only serve to create confusion.

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