You seem to be making a flaw out of being "wordy and impressive". It's not. I have a good education, I read more in a year than most people (in the Western world, not just the US) do in an entire lifetime, and I have a very large vocabulary and good command of English grammar. And I will not apologize for that. Ever. Snarking on it is not going to change that.
You weren't being respectful. You were completely twisting what I was saying, ascribing to me a view I don't have (the idea that I have either faith in or respect for big corporations, whether American or Canadian, has no basis in reality - that was the strawman) and then saying "fine, if that's the way you feel". That's not respect, at least not where I come from.
You are right about me not writing a lot that's good about America or Americans in general. I don't write a lot of happy happy joy joy stuff about anything. I write, in the balance, about stuff that I find ridiculous. And that's been true since I started the thing. And it's very unlikely to change.
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Date: 2006-05-02 02:18 pm (UTC)You seem to be making a flaw out of being "wordy and impressive". It's not. I have a good education, I read more in a year than most people (in the Western world, not just the US) do in an entire lifetime, and I have a very large vocabulary and good command of English grammar. And I will not apologize for that. Ever. Snarking on it is not going to change that.
You weren't being respectful. You were completely twisting what I was saying, ascribing to me a view I don't have (the idea that I have either faith in or respect for big corporations, whether American or Canadian, has no basis in reality - that was the strawman) and then saying "fine, if that's the way you feel". That's not respect, at least not where I come from.
You are right about me not writing a lot that's good about America or Americans in general. I don't write a lot of happy happy joy joy stuff about anything. I write, in the balance, about stuff that I find ridiculous. And that's been true since I started the thing. And it's very unlikely to change.