Prince Harry Wedding Questions (theadapalooza!)

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@Leo_Bloom

Nitpick: Homosexuals can marry. Federal law.
Your snark, repeated over the years almost exactly with these words is not appreciated and it gets in the way. If you parsed something wrong, either I or another poster, if so moved, will tell you.

I think you’re getting me confused with Colibri.

@Colibri

Here’s the crux of the problem. I also can’t make head or tail of what you’re on about in your OP, especially the last sentence.

When you think you’re writing clearly, but multiple people (including a few with advanced degrees) tell you they don’t understand you, the problem is clearly on your side.

Leo, I know you get upset with me when I try to get you to frame your questions in a less elliptical fashion in GQ. You’ve said that you enjoy asides, digressions, and elaborate language. That’s all well and good, but if people don’t understand your posts it’s counterproductive. Not only will people have trouble answering your questions if they can’t easily parse them, they end up getting annoyed with you (and I end up having to mod them for taking potshots at you).

If you want to indulge in creative writing, you can do it all you want in IMHO. When you want a question answered or a response, it would behoove you to take a minimalist approach in your posts, and phrase them in the simplest and most straightforward way possible. You may find it entertaining to be more recondite and convoluted, but it causes problems.

Leo, you talk about parsing as if it’s a bad thing. I’m currently having an entire 150,000-word book read sentence-by-sentence to ensure that every one of them is easily parsed by the potential reader. A bumpy sentence is bad in a book. A lone question that can’t be figured out can’t be answered, and that sorta defeats the entire purpose of GQ.

ElvisL1ves is right, BTW. Supreme Court rulings on marriage are not federal law. They are interpretations of state laws, a totally different thing.