Apparently other Eschatots are perplexed at how an educated person writing something for other educated people to read could use a word so obscure as "perplexity".
Just how stupid does it need to get over there at Baby Blue?
Update: Steve, you boob. Having a college level vocabulary isn't a sign of being a Republican. You apparently are one of those people who believes that an education is only the rightful domain of the elite. There are no bigger snobs than those who believe that poor folk don't have a right to think, a depressing number of whom mistake themselves as leftists.
I'm beginning to think that's par for the course on the internet.
ReplyDeleteI hope that phrase isn't too obscure....
And I see just now that they're doubling down on it. Really, to think that educated people of roughly my generation and younger would be so stupid, the result of allowing Hollywood and TV to educate a generation of Americans.
DeleteThe illiterati of the unlightenment,
Guess they never read The Pooh Perplex.
ReplyDeleteThere's lots of perplexed poo at Baby Blue.
DeleteThe perplexing thing is the "Thank you sir, may I have another" attitude.
DeleteOnce again, this time in all caps for the reading impaired:
ReplyDeleteJUST BECAUSE A WORD EXISTS DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T TOO POMPOUS AND PRETENTIOUS TO USE. UNLESS YOU'RE A HUGE PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLE.
SEE: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WM. F. BUCKLEY AND GEORGE F. WILL
Shorter Simels: People with more words than I have are stoopid.
DeleteExcept for that last word, I'm pretty sure the rest of those words are within the ten hundred most common words, so I'm pretty sure Simels will understand it. Of course, he might not understand the rest of this, since I'm pretty sure I'm beyond that limit by now.
Perplexing, isn't it?
Did an allegedly educated person really suggest that one is pompous for using actual words?
DeleteYep.
DeleteApparently the only people Simels has ever heard use words beyond a third-graders vocabulary are Buckley and Will.
DeleteWhich isn't really a reflection on those two gentlemen.
ReplyDeleteSo you guys think Buckley and Will aren't pompous bad writers? Wow.
I think you're a bad thinker who has got nothin' and is too lazy and stupid to come up with anything. And it's OK with your clique of kewl kids because they don't really care.
DeleteYou didn't listen to his critique of capitalism on that video, did you, Simps. It was more a more severe criticism of right wing economics than anything I've heard form Duncan.
You know, this is the level or argument you get on the playground. In elementary school.
DeleteWow.
Or at a blog run by a Brown U. PhD who once worked at the London School of Economics. Talk about your decadent intellectual class.
DeleteAstounding logical prowess: some bad writers use big words, so the problem is big words, not the bad writers, ergo, if you use big words you are a bad writer. QED, bitches!
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