After reading that post, I'm thinking Twain may have been on to something.
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I actually have no clue except someone has a lot of time. :)
The grammar is fine and all, but there's a huge lack of content. The words have meanings, but the sentences mean nothing. The only information properly conveyed is that writer has an opinion about chess.com and that the opinioni s negative.
I think he's a good creative writer.
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I think he's a good creative writer.
I wouldn't call creating nothingness creative. You're obviously not me.
@Superrook500 Verbosity is speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Mark Twain wrote "generally, the fewer words that fully communicate or evoke the intended ideas or feelings, the more effective the communication. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel prizewinner for literature, defended his concise style against a charge from William Faulkner that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to a dictionary." Hemingway responded by saying, "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think that big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better ones, and those are the ones I use." A 2005 study from the psychology department of Princeton University found that using long and obscure words does not make people seem more intelligent. Dr. Daniel M. Oppenheimer did research which showed that people rated short, concise text as being written by the most intelligent individuals. But those who used long words and fonts types were the less intelligent.
Zapped adds to this previously posted comment: I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT SUPERROCK500, JOINED AUGUST 1, 2014, HAS YET TO PLAY A SINGLE GAME OF CHESS NOR VIEWED VIDEOS, NOR UTILIZED CHESS TACTICS, NOR ANYTHING ELSE!