From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:10:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] boy scuplture "Flyinghand" (please sign your messages), I too am "guilty" of overusing extreme words like Awesome, Wonderful, and Amazing! You see, maybe my vocabulary isn't as diverse as some self-proclaimed elite might wish. Like Katy, I would much rather just express myself as I feel. Not as some people would have me express. There are also little things called context, intonation, and flexibility that come into the equation. Context: it may be awesome within a category that the person is thinking about. Intonation: hard to tell, in a written email. Flexibility: we should allow in our judgement that one person's criteria is different from ours, and even from their own, depending on the moment and circumstances. I would add "feelings" as a criteria. Maybe a piece of work is touching us in a special way in the moment, and maybe for that moment, it is truly awesome. I understand the important of precise vocabulary in helping clarify communication, but that should be a personal effort, not an imposed one. If your goal is to try to instigate martial law on Puptcrit, you'll find we're a resistant bunch of free thinkers. Ok, ok, maybe I'm pushing my ionterpretation a bit far, taking things too personal. It's just that seeing such attacks on people who generously share their work with us really frustrates me. _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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