I wasn't particularly trying to carry on a conversation.
You weren't?? So, what were we doing here, talking in public? Is is that you just don't think I'm worth conversing with, or you didn't think I had a right to butt in?
I'm sorry you're walking away from this discussion, because I think there are questions of communication that bear on the writer-reader connection we might want to talk about. The use of vocabulary -- and the mutual understanding of that vocabulary -- is key to the enterprise of communication.
Talking, writing, posting on the internet -- all forms of communication, no? All forms of reaching out to another person and trying to colonize their brains.
So, what were we doing here, talking in public? Is is that you just don't think I'm worth conversing with, or you didn't think I had a right to butt in?
OK, this is so far from what I mean that it made me laugh, choke, and blink, all at once. We seem to have an incredible gulf in how we communicate - you're speaking English and I'm speaking Martian, or something. I'll try to clarify before I go, just because I would not for two seconds have you think either of those things.
I didn't want to have this discussion, period. Not with you, not with anyone. It drove me out of Literary and I was down to four threads and this was the one I valued most, and the subject, except as it related to Yvonne's rant, was one I didn't think belonged in here, which I thought was supposed to be designed for creating, not critiquing. I am apprently mistaken in that assumption, so I've unsubscribed. I can do Teppy's challenges through the Livejournal site, and anyone who wants feedback can email me. And of course, I'll still be whimpering for feedback on my stuff - I'll just be doing it in email.
I'm not leaving the discussion. I'm leaving the thread entirely.
and the subject, except as it related to Yvonne's rant, was one I didn't think belonged in here
But Deb, you're the one who brought it up.
edited
Maybe this is the wrong thread to have this conversation, and I think I just had to write that humungous post I just deleted, not post it. It wasn't hurtful or anything, but in the time between when I started typing and when I posted, the kerfuffle had grown and Deb had decided to leave the thread.
Deb, please come back. My guess is that this was just a side note to our normal madcap creation. It's not worth losing the thread.
Kristin, I can tell from your post that you are one HELL of a teacher. Thank you for your post AND for being such a damn fine teacher.
That said, I really would like to echo your thought that this conversation is better suited to Literary.
crap. I deleted it right after I posted it.
Thanks for the feedback Steph. I didn't mean to make you look crazy.
Thanks for the feedback Steph. I didn't mean to make you look crazy.
1) You didn't make me look crazy -- I do that all by myself. It's an art form.
2) I really did love what you said. It's why I would love to teach English some day.
