I dunno, jiiim, I had some good laughs at the name misspelling fun upthread. It hasn’t been a complete waste.
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Well duh!
Too many syllables, funny words not usually encountered in tabloids, punctuation not just at the end but in the middle of sentences, lots of sentences clustered together into paragraphs. It’s the sort of fancy-shmancy writing that went out of fashion years ago, and it has no place in teh age of tha intarweb!
If I may ask a serious question: Tygerbryght, I wonder if you would mind explaining the spelling of your name?
Daniel
tygerbryght
Yeah, he was great in “Baretta” wasn’t he?
I’m not tygerbryght (copy & pasted, there!), but I suspect that it’s a play on William Blake’s poem, ‘The Tyger’
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
:smack: I know that poem (see my hilarious post 14); I just didn’t realize he spelled it with a Y. Thanks!
Daniel
Ya know, even after being here for five years, I still manage to fuck something up. sigh.
My apologies.
I am familiar with the terms ‘trainwreck’ and ‘pile-on’, but what’s the accepted terminology for this sort of Keystone Kops slapstick in a thread?
I think the classic **FUBAR **captures the essense here quite nicely, don’t you think?
Too many commas, too many short phrases changing direction too often, too wordy, no flow; in other words, low readability. I had to go over quite a few sentences twice or three times to make sense of them, and I’m no dummy with reading comprehension problems. Of course, you just have my word on that; maybe I am a dummy with reading comprehension problems, and tigger’s writing is just fine.
I could never understand Collounsbury, either. Everyone thought he was a genius, and I always had a hell of a time wading through his posts. Maybe it is me.
Based on what she has posted so far in this thread, I am guessing that the spelling of Tygerbryght’s name reflects her real name, which has a “y” where many people expect an “i” to be.
Tell me I’m right, Tyger!!!
Hey! :mad:
I’d love to, but you’re not; sorry. :dubious:
Best I can recall after 20 years: when I chose it, I liked the antique tone of Blake’s spelling of tyger, and changed the spelling of bright to match it for the sake of symmetry. He was from an(other) era when spelling was individual (and often idiosyncratic).
Left Hand of Dorkness, am I correct in assuming that Aguecheek answered your question?
wisernow, mind if I ask how long you’ve been online? I note you’re using a pseudo, including in the email address in your profile. Perhaps you aren’t aware that asking for real-world identity has generally been considered an improper question in any forum where pseudos are permitted. This custom goes back to the days of Arpanet, IIRC. I know it was in the early 1980s when I learned it.
Was there some good reason you want my real name? I come from a fairly small family (several generations with only one son to “carry on the family name”) whose name is unique because of spelling changes made by ancestors. To the best of my knowledge, I am the only person in North America with the name. However, my first name became very popular about 35 years ago. There are now many with the same first name and a similar last name.
Excalibre, I’m sorry if I seem too serious about it. I don’t believe in pity parties, and try not to advertise my circumstances. What’s worse is that my sense of humor is somewhat deficient, which may be either nature or nurture. I recall that my father could never see the humor in any joke directed at him. As is often the case, he was sure he had a wonderful sense of humor, and loved to tease others. I’m afraid that in that particular at least, he was a
:wally
And I hate to admit how old I was before I could tell a joke on myself.
BTW, some of the variants on my pseudo in this thread were clever, some even very much so, but I think Walter Windchill’s was the best. If I ever do change my pseudo again, that one’s a great candidate.
Ha! That was my guess. But you missed a perfect opportunity to say fearful symmetry. 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
:smack: :smack: Oh, crap. Charlie Brown moment. 
Can we chalk it up to it being very late night/very early morning? I’ve been telling myself for the last three hours it’s past time to go to bed.
That was a royal gotcha.
Somebody up the thread complained about my writing style, which was barely good enough to get me the highest grade in my H.S. senior English class final, forty-some years ago. IOW, there were some other bright kids in the class; I had competition, including another Merit Scholarship semi-finalist (back when there was no way to prep for them; if you scored high, it was because you already had the skills), who is now on the faculty of a University of California law school. Not saying which UCxx because he’s a busy man. Of course, he’ll probably be retiring before the decade’s out.
I just happened to visit Chaos Manor a little while ago. Dr. Jerry Pournelle is known for military SF, and for writing about new stuff in computing, for those unfamiliar with who he is. Jerry is also husband to a noted remedial educationist, Roberta by name. Through her, he takes a strong - and very painful - interest in education. Friday’s date has a subhead: The Education Disaster. He offers two links, one to a MSNBC poll on the reading comprehension of upper level college students. The other is to an even more “bigoted” opiner than he: a cheery soul who calls his blog Fred On Everything. His January 18th post is titled, “A Colony Again” :eek:
I offer them as recommended reading - not because you’ll enjoy what you read, unless maybe you’re North Korean or PRC Chinese. I’m not nearly as far to the right as either of them, but “facks ez facks,” as they say. I ain’t a-gonna say, “After me the deluge” (sorry, but I don’t recall the French original precisely, and I prefer to murder no one’s language but my own). I’ll just let you think/stew/fume about it, okay?
Uh, should I be thanking even sven for doing this to me, do you suppose?
I was the one who criticized your writing style, and I stand by it. I just read your most recent post through two times, in the hopes of making sense of it, and I still don’t get what Jerry Pournelle and North Korea have to do with anything. Regardless of how many writing competitions you won as a youth, I find your writing style awkward.
But, this was only intended as constructive criticism, not to pick a fight. If you’re not interested in feedback on how your writing here is perceived, I am content to read or not read your posts as the mood takes me.
Well, maybe I read more awkwardly written items than you (which is possible), but I don’t have any trouble understanding her posts at all.
This might just be you. Maybe oil and gas contracts are written very clearly, and science documents are totally pedantic?
On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that my posts are incomprehensable as well - dunno.
As I understand it, her point is somewhere between “Kids these days!” and “through the snow, uphill, both ways!” She was a great writer forty years ago, and we all know how much better schools were then --just look at these two cranky blogs for proof!
I’m a bit skeptical, you may’ve gathered :).
Daniel