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PERI DOXAS: Voice, Authenticity, Style, Politics |
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(1) You can write badly from anywhere on the political spectrum.
(2) Difficult writing is usually worse than clear writing, but not necessarily. (3) Sometimes difficult writing reflects the genuine torsion that accompanies unfamiliar theories' transition into discourse. (4) Jargon--one of the oft-cited vices of difficult prose--may represent a local dialect of like-minded thinkers who find communication easier when they allude to shared notions rather than spelling them out every time. 5. Many who can't write clearly, also can't tell the difference between "writing clearly" and "dumbing down." 6. Many who expound complex ideas in intelligible prose have indeed dumbed down the ideas they're expounding. 7. People who can expound complex ideas in clear prose are liable to get flak from every side: too clear to be profound, to complex to be popular. 8. Nonetheless, those are the writer/composers whose gifts are rarest and most valuable. All times are local. Local times may vary. Minutes do not expire. A. K. M. Adam That which we have not yet bothered to imagine is not therefore impossible. |
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