[TPIN] Educational double speak - tied into trumpet.......

[RickTrumpetMan at aol.com]

Ellis,
 
I promise you the one thing.   I will never be is an  Administrator.  
 
The last time I posted (on a related topic from a couple of weeks  ago) there 
were several posts that received no responses that I'm  aware of and those 
are the reasons for all those disclaimers.  
 
One of them was from someone who took a standpoint of "victimization by  
generational association".  (They're not that big, you can figure it  out...)
 
If you understood what I said, and didn't like the way I  said it, it's on 
you.  I'd apologize if I thought you actually wanted  an apology.  I suspect 
that the real issue is that you don't agree with  what I said.  It's a typical 
political tactic.  Attack the style  if you don't like the substance.
 
The opposite of "verbose" is what plagues our culture now.   Yes, it runs in 
cycles, but too much attention to detail is not  our culture's big problem 
these days. I'd assert that it's  related to people who absolutely  will not 
tolerate anything of  complexity (including music) that's not repetitive and 
simple. If  somebody ran an ad campaign (for anything really...) that sounded like  
any prose style from forty years ago (even the good stuff, Steve Allen  used 
to do comedy routines about this back when the audience existed for  it) the 
audience would go to sleep instantly.  Is this the  writer's fault or the 
audience's?  It's a matter of opinion but you do  the topic a disservice by 
pretending there's only one side to  the issue. 
 
 
Put another way:  People pretending to be laconic "plain talkers" who  hide 
common sense in "incestuous amplification" (Yea! More big words!  Look it 
up....) are the more serious problem now.  I suspect that  it was that part that 
pissed you off, maybe.  Too Bad.  Everybody  gets an opinion.
 
 
Please take this off list now.  I stand by my assertions and  I can back them 
up.  I also try to follow MA's requests.  Short  of character assassination, 
that is....  
 
I've noticed that you're pretty combative in your posts with others  here so 
I don't expect you to try to understand my position anyway.   Your loss.......
 
 
 
Rick Price 



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