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Originally Posted by griffonwing
Look at most of my long posts, and you'll see just how bad some writing can be  hehe |
Everyone's got some pet peeves when it comes to writing. I've got two myself that irritate me.
A) contrived description. The show-don't-tell ideal gets stretched quite a bit. Most days I'd rather get "his face was slightly bleeding again" than "lazy rivulets of crimson lifeblood crept hesitatingly from the freshly reopened wound between his flat bulbous nose and small, deeply-set eyes that shone with brilliance and down the scar-laden texture of his experienced, leathery cheek".
B) "artificial semantic density". I got sick of reading and writing in the pretentious scholarship mode some time ago, and never really cared for the way many academics would follow formulaic field-specific conventions to intentionally convolve and complicate their writing to gain credibility.
Of course, other people adore those things, and hate terse, direct, vernacular methods of writing.