Posted by SLS on March 26, 2012, at 15:19:21
In reply to Re: new pdoc says there 'are no answers', posted by TiredofChemicals on March 26, 2012, at 14:41:52
> kidding, I really have to study all that is written to begin to understand what is being said. I admit too that, I have to blow the dust off the ol' Websters as there are words being used here that I am unfamiliar with.
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> I'm being educated. I appreciate it.
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> Regards
I am genuinely happy that you feel that way.I don't intend to "dumb-down" everything I have to say. How pretentious that would be. The people here deserve better than that. Besides, I genuinely believe that everyone here is capable of learning things. I am always delighted when I see one of us "laymen" (including me) digest facts and become capable of synthesizing their own ideas using them. Knowing facts is valuable, but not nearly as valuable as applying oneself to gain true understanding using them.
I know that a dictionary comes in handy. It is a bit of a balancing act. When I address individual posters, I try to take into consideration where I think they are along their journey to self-education and understanding. I would rather be understood than to seem pedantic and have nothing I write be understood. There is no lack of intelligence here - only a disease that convinces us otherwise about ourselves.
I use a dictionary, too. Some very impressive words are being thrown about at Psycho-Babble.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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