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jackewx asked about my distinctive writing and speaking style. I was flattered
people noticed. Unfortunately, I don't really have any idea -- it's like
having an accent or dialect, to me, I just sound normal, and everyone else
sounds normal too! :)
I guess I assumed I was much like everyone else I knew: prone to pedantry
and grammatical flourishes, maybe more so, but not otherwise an outlier :)
But I asked several close friends, and they separately agreed I DID have a
distinctive writing and speaking style. But I didn't get much closer to
describing it.
Thinking about it more, I said grammatical flourishes, but I think I tend
to do that _more_. I tend to be very precise in numbering things, and
having subclauses, which even if they ramble on, I will always be very
definite that I _intended_ to finish up the main sentence with a last verb
or preposition. And ramble on too much trying to enumerate things, and
going meta and meta-er, to the extent of trying to overgeneralise, and
completely failing to say the thing I was actually trying to say. And I
tend to a sort of deadpan sarcasm, aiming for it being so plausible you
might _very nearly_ think I meant it (which often goes badly if you're
talking to a diverse audience, or mis-estimate how well people know what
I'm likely to believe).
But, basically... I'm not really sure. You tell me -- what is my
distinctive style? :)
people noticed. Unfortunately, I don't really have any idea -- it's like
having an accent or dialect, to me, I just sound normal, and everyone else
sounds normal too! :)
I guess I assumed I was much like everyone else I knew: prone to pedantry
and grammatical flourishes, maybe more so, but not otherwise an outlier :)
But I asked several close friends, and they separately agreed I DID have a
distinctive writing and speaking style. But I didn't get much closer to
describing it.
Thinking about it more, I said grammatical flourishes, but I think I tend
to do that _more_. I tend to be very precise in numbering things, and
having subclauses, which even if they ramble on, I will always be very
definite that I _intended_ to finish up the main sentence with a last verb
or preposition. And ramble on too much trying to enumerate things, and
going meta and meta-er, to the extent of trying to overgeneralise, and
completely failing to say the thing I was actually trying to say. And I
tend to a sort of deadpan sarcasm, aiming for it being so plausible you
might _very nearly_ think I meant it (which often goes badly if you're
talking to a diverse audience, or mis-estimate how well people know what
I'm likely to believe).
But, basically... I'm not really sure. You tell me -- what is my
distinctive style? :)