OMG, this really was a comment someone made about my posts.
Yes, and some of them are really big ones too!
I will try to make my sentences shorter and use simpler language, but that will be a struggle. Maybe I should add more pictures. Stupid people like picture books.
In fact, in countries with low literacy rates, they put the pictures of the contents on products.
When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the beautiful Caucasian baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what’s inside, since most people can’t read. the mostly uneducated consumers thought the jars contained ground-up babies. Needless to say, sales were terrible!That puts this picture in a different light since perhaps this baby is showing fear at being ground up and stuck in a jar. More baby oil please!
I was told I was born speaking complete sentences. So, I said, “the task of discovering the meaning of my writing must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted” instead of saying “da-da”, “ma-ma”, or “doug-doug” when I was an infant. Although I do admit to regressing in speech patterns as I have aged.
I am truly overeducated with useless knowledge and the desire to learn has never left me. Like Chaucer’s Clerke of Oxenford “Gladly would he learn and gladly would he teach”. I also will read pretty much whatever is put in front of me.
Someone said he thought I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was. Sorry, but I don’t see myself as smart, although others tell me I am. In fact, that intended insult was more of a compliment and the person who made it lacked the smarts to realise that. I also find through dealings with others that I am a lot smarter than they are since it is amazing how people can find simple concepts difficult to grasp. In particular some moron who wants to put you down by telling you that you aren’t that smart and then showing that he has no idea of what you are talking about
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I’ve been told I have a genius IQ more than once (and seem even smarter after correcting that typo).
I don’t belong to MENSA though, but I do belong to DENSA.
Seriously, I try not to be a wanker about it, but it’s kind of hard.
Not to mention very lonely being over-educated and literate.
And occasionally some of the big words are in latin, or another foreign language (living or dead).
ReplyDeleteIt’s an interesting question … do you write to the audience that you want … or to the level of the audience ?
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the bumper sticker “If you can read this, you didn’t go to school in Rick Perry’s Texas” ?
To get elected, you want to “talk” to the level of the audience … hence, the success of George W. Bush … remember the debates after which the pundits declared that Bush “won” because the bar was set so low … yet in reality, Bush won because he talked in short sentences while Gore labored on.
So in answering the question of “audience that you want versus the level of the audience” consider a television weather segment … the Doctor of Meteorology starts with some witty banter with the “pretty boy” or “attractive woman” anchor … then moves on to “old news” - the morning temperatures or last night’s rain … then on to discussions of barometric pressure, isobars, and fronts … all I want to hear is : Is it going to rain what will be the temperature … but too often they babble on and all of a sudden the Sports Reporter is on camera, and I missed the forecast !
I really don’t want to know HOW the meteorologist devised his forecast (heck, they seem to be wrong more often then correct), just give me the answer
… I don’t need to Think and devise my own forecast.
Thus, there are plenty of bloggers that will tell me the quick forecast on an topic (generally slanted either based on creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans or godless, Socialist, Union-protecting, welfare-loving Democrats) when I want a blogger that will write something that will make me Think … I want someone to Educate me … Challenge my views … so if I make a comment on your site, you have succeeded.
Go ahead and use Big Words … that’s why I have a dictionary (which I always keep at hand when reading Maureen Dowd’s columns.)
I write to the Audience I want.
ReplyDeleteYes, challenging people and making them think is my intention.
I've been told this is a compliment: so thank you, Minnesota Central!