Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

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2. They are far too complex for any of you to follow as well as I do [ ... ]
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Not too complex for me, I was able to understand your long sentence example from months ago just fine. I personally never had occasion to write such a thing because I've only ever needed to write academically for grades, so such run-on sentences were often forced to be split and reworked or "lose points," but having read the dictionary in my "free time" as a kid and studying grammar in conjunction with Latin classes to see how they could match up in English as well has afforded me a certain understanding of how one reads and understands written and spoken English and how a competently educated person should read and understand written and spoken English.

So while yes, Shannon, you may indeed be the only person who actively writes such verbose language professionally and on such a regular basis, you are by no means the only one who can follow said language successfully. Feel free to test me if you choose, where the end result will simply be you will find me an equal in comprehending your scripts consciously as written.

Yes, I know this post most likely will come across as excessively boastful. There's pretty much no other way to say "hey Shannon, you're wrong, I can totally understand your language" without sounding either boastful like above or like a child being contrary.

I don't mean to sound arrogant or boastful, and I know you don't either. But when I am talking about single sentences that get up into the 5 to 20 pages long typed at 12 point font range, you would fare no better than me at understanding it, and it requires that I work with it in paragraph sized chunks at a time.

That issue is not the primary reason I would be hesitant to share it even if the last reason were not in play, but in having to spend extra time verifying that the grammar was understood by the person suggesting the change, which would essentially be me doing the same job, but taking longer to do it!

EDIT: Now that I think about it, there are other reasons why you wouldn't be able to understand the language I use that have nothing to do with intelligence or education. It would require giving away even more secrets to make them comprehensible.

Your history sounds like mine, actually.