Wow. It has been really long since I have posted anything. I will be continuing the Penguin Quest saga soon. There has just been this thing that has been bothering me recently:
There seems to be a growing number of "scholars" who enjoy writing with lots of quotations. I certainly do not "like" this. Whenever someone uses "quotation marks," they implicitly belittle the "reader." They "make it sound" like the phrases in "quotations" are "inferior" words that the writer would never use in their "vocabulary." The reader feels "stupid" and "uncultivated," especially when the writer quotes "ginormous" words to sound even more "supercilious."
What is even worse is when they overuse "brackets" in their "quotations" to make the person who was "quoted" sound "utterly and completely idiotic and unable to compose a sentence that makes complete sense." As one man once said, "[Brackets] are [a very odd thing that] you [should not use unless you are] having [trouble making] any [sense of a quote, and they should not be used simply for] fun [...at least that's what I think is good to do, don't you agree]?" Even some "bracketeers [sic]" use them for "manipulative" purposes. For example, this man said "I [do not in any way] love brackets [and wish that people would just stop using them all the time just to get me to say what they want me to say]!"
In "conclusion," I think that many "professional writers" are just too insecure to show their "feelings," and so they feel that they must mask them under layers upon layers of those hideous "double hash marks of doom." I think we readers just need to let them know that we will accept these "people's" vocabularies for "what they are."
"Sincerely,"
Andrew.
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