A whole sentence (fragment) all about me

Thursday July 29, 2004 @ 12:33 PM (PDT)

Seen today in an email from a family member, referring to my writing style:

hyperintelligent teenage-level internet-type argumentative and patronizing smirkingly sarcastic pseudo-intellectualism

I was a little hurt until I thought about it for a while. Maybe there’s a point there. Actually, I think that sums me up quite nicely.

Comments

That isn't a sentence! That's a sentence fragment! The entire thing is one noun-equivalent phrase! (To what noun it stands equivalent, you seem to have already concluded.)

May I just reiterate how much I am amazed by the fact you trolled your own family?
To be fair, I extracted it from an actual sentence.

Why are you amazed? You've met me, right?
I just thought it was funny. Apparently I was wrong.

Yeah, I've met you. But, frankly, you are mostly, in my estimation, non-confrontational. In fact, more than almost any other guy I know. So when you do these very confrontational things (I know, after great provocation!) I just stand here trying to reel in my jaw and going, "buh!"

I'm a lot more confrontational when email is involved.

There's a difference between being confrontational via e-mail with perfect strangers (which I KNOW you do) and being confrontational via e-mail with people you're related to. People who KNOW YOUR MOM.

And

They forgot ego-centric

It is indeed much easier to confront over email. The only "cat-fight" I've ever been in originated and escalated to an ugly pitch over email. Also, it's easier to ask people out over email.

Hey, that's the dining room of someone i know ! there on your photoblog!

the one of her in the trash can is the cutest catphoto EVAR!!!

As the author of the above sentence fragment, I would like to clarify that the said fragment was not a reference to how I think you had already been writing, rather it was simply a warning that if the ongoing conversation devolved to that point, I planned to not respond to it.

As Neal Stephenson says in "Cryptonomicon":

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."

Although you are not by any means an anonymous stranger, the principal at work in the case of our discussion is quite similar due to my extraordinary lack of free time. I was simply expressing that I didn't want to get caught up in an infinite loop of unfruitful verbal conflict. If I am going to spend the time responding, I want to keep the discussion meaningful and relevant.

I hope this soothes the hurt feeling(s) you initially experienced. :)

I just noticed the blue title subscript above... Bravo!

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