Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2002-05-12 10:37 am
azurelunatic) wrote2002-05-12 10:37 am
Semantics, pedantics
Exactly what about seeing a puffed-up spelling flame pedant at work sends me into overdrive?
Perhaps it's because these people touch such a resonance in me. I'm a desktop editor at heart; I have to be, after spending so many years hacking away at the novel, trying to ensure that every little bitty bit was in correct order.
Part of it is an almost psychiatric urge to weasel out people's hidden motivations. The anonymous spelling flamer of last night proved to be a grump from a few journals over. Evidently he and the opinions of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bibble don't get along too well.
Part of it is a desire for perfection in my own self, and frustration because I occasionally lack the Will to enforce it. Who'd want an absolutely perfect person? Nobody. Who'd like me just a little better if I was able to make a few of my more annoying "features" submit to my mastery? Just about everyone I care to spend time with.
Perhaps it's because these people touch such a resonance in me. I'm a desktop editor at heart; I have to be, after spending so many years hacking away at the novel, trying to ensure that every little bitty bit was in correct order.
Part of it is an almost psychiatric urge to weasel out people's hidden motivations. The anonymous spelling flamer of last night proved to be a grump from a few journals over. Evidently he and the opinions of
bibble don't get along too well. Part of it is a desire for perfection in my own self, and frustration because I occasionally lack the Will to enforce it. Who'd want an absolutely perfect person? Nobody. Who'd like me just a little better if I was able to make a few of my more annoying "features" submit to my mastery? Just about everyone I care to spend time with.
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mainly, it was just for fun, but also i had the nagging urge to defend myself, given that it was a random and really unfounded attack. plus it gave me (and others) the chance to exercize verbosity for a "cause". i generally don't buy into flame wars, but on occasion i suppose they're not only alright, but necessary.
anyway, thanks. :)
You're welcome.
I like twisting people around into admitting that they're being loudmouthed pests.
This was a far more gentlebeingly exchange than some I've seen. Hell, I've even staged some for fun... my best friend Darkside and I stomped all over the forum at http://fogclub.keenspace.com before Dennis K stepped in as the Moderator of Doom. ...Amusingly, I don't think Dennis has figured out that Darkside is in fact his high school best friend...