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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Paragraphs are typically separated with blank lines. Watch the run-on sentences, they are a sign of sloppy thinking (or brilliant writing, but it's a line few can successfully cross).
I appreciate the sentiment, but have to share my own philosophy with you, namely, that anonymous rants, by which I mean, criticism directed at "you know who you are", is ineffective. No one knows who they are, so such rants tend to be more about looking good by comparison, without actually doing any good.
It's much better to name names, even if it gets you in trouble. Otherwise, there just isn't any point.
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I know the rules of the game, and yes, my writing is legitimately brilliant (even the run-on sentences). If that's what's up, I should point out that paragraphs in most printed material aren't distinguished by blank lines, but rather indentations.
The issue of my own competency in using the English language having now been addressed to completion, I should say that you make a decent point about my "I know who you are" style of criticism. If I might offer an argument for the legitimacy of my choice of approach, I think the broad sweep of my accusations should force any reasonable person reading them to examine their own potentially-flawed writing style and eventually ask themselves, "How does he know who I am so incredibly impressively?!" In other words, the ambiguity of my subject allows for the individual readers who could benefit from that big jerkin' it session up there to identify more readily with the unnamed rantee. I would say that counts as a point (for me? Maybe that was a depressed robot joke, there [originally]).