Cyril Haearn wrote:One does wish that people would not quote whole posts of several paragraphs
One may abbreviate and leave a couple of dots to indicate this, it is quite easy even with a smartphone
Altogether it would be good to wrt shrt txts I thnk
Nonsense!
If I'm going to spend my valuable time reading and writing to this place, I want some meat as well as the veg and gravy. I cannot abide a tweeter chirrupring a meaningless twitting noise; not those who are utterly mysterious in the form of a garbled, ambiguous and perhaps even self-contradictory splurge of phone-text gabble. Why do they bother if they have no real intent or ability to communicate?
Some seem to think their brief remarks pithy and amusing, as they smirk them out. Ha! Let us see how they fare when serious logic-chopping is attempted!
Cugel, a loquacious (perhaps circumloquacious) word-splurging chatter-prattler.
PS Those who fail to develop their essay-reading skills and tenacity will be forever doomed to reading nothing but comics and the concentrated contumacious cack of newspapers.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes