# Verisimilitude in Non-Conversant-style Screeds

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verisimilitude-in-non-conversant-style-screeds/420366>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verisimilitude-in-non-conversant-style-screeds/420366 "2007-09-24T23:29:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verisimilitude-in-non-conversant-style-screeds/420366/21 "2007-09-28T21:17:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Roland Orzabal]  
…huh. I came in here all set to defend the Pittee, thinking that **Revenant** had something against philosohpical writing styles in general and that the OP was intended as over the top.

Then I clicked his links. Ye gods, that is some high-quality pretentious twaddle, in all its bolded and obfuscatory wonder. I’m well aware that I can be long-winded – though I personally prefer “thorough” 😉 – in my posting style, but I’m never deliberately obtuse. This guy is something else again.

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No, you see, this is an example of the anti-intellectual bias in our culture.

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**Author:** ![Jaochai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Jaochai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaochai)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verisimilitude-in-non-conversant-style-screeds/420366/22 "2007-09-29T02:02:56Z")

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[QUOTE=sturmhauke]  
Someone here posted a link to a random postmodern argument generator. I think it’s actually a link to coberst’s mind. I wonder if he gets royalties…  
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> **[Communications From Elsewhere](https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/)**
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> The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link. The Postmodernism Generator was writte…

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