Floyd to be released tonight

I don't have a writing style, at all, it's all on the fly. :dunno: In fact, when I as in school, I could sometimes sit down and write an A-Grade essay in 20 minutes, or piss away an entire evening trying to just get one started. Somebody with writing style would be able to get the job done to a B grade standard, every-time, without fail. I could barely pass or get an A depending on what mood I sat down to the paper in.

The word you should have used there was redolent.

Using the word "reminisce" would suggest that you yourself had personal experience of both/either a high school literary magazine contributor {most magazines are literary in nature, I assume you wished to distinguish between this and its easily confused munitions-related cousin of the same name} or a Readers Digest contributor....

As I say, Redolent {smelling of} would be a better word, as it would diminish the concept of a strong association between you and either of those status {high school dude/Readers Digest contrib}

Unfortunately, thanks to your writing style, I am now forced to conclude that you are a 50 year old Spinster who used to work, many moons ago, in a munitions factory and then as a high school magazine contributor.

Homeland Security have been informed of this worrying development.

 

Rebel me ballix!! Cork only got that reputation in the 1920's via Collins. You know yourself...1798 was all East/SouthEast- Wicklow, Wexford. 1916 was all Dublin. Cork, rebels, me ballix! Did you know that the Confederate Flag is often seen at GAA games where Cork are playing. Only a matter of time before the law is changed so that "Nobody gets offended" :wack:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110804185115AAUoRp4


Some historical bumpf on that page, if you scroll down, suggesting that Cork coming out for some bum in 1491 is why the are called rebels. Yeah sure.

There is one comment on that page...well...let me just say make sure there is no coffee in your mouth when you read it. ::

 

....it's all on the internet ::

 

Willie Nelson -he's in the Ra!

Robert E. Lee - he's in the Ra!

Phil Anselmo - He's in the Ra!

 

::

There's another one which is blocked because it got too many neg votes.....click to reveal it, its more epic nonsense.

 

You are completely wrong. Reminiscent is entirely correct there.

rem·i·nis·cent/ˌreməˈnisənt/

Adjective:

1.Tending to remind one of something.
2.Suggesting something by resemblance.

Synonyms:

remindful

Whether you are aware of it or not, your writing follows a distinct and detectable pattern. Thus, you have a writing style.

Re: literary magazines, I'll quote from wikipedia to save myself effort

You have learned many things from this post. Hopefully it will result in you speaking less in the future.

 

Irish, I can't quote your post for some damned reason

Anyhow, I knew that'd get a rise out of you haha

The guy with 14th century thing is a dolt, the guy with the Virginia/Willie Nelson comment is hilarious

 

Simpletons like the 'it's just because it's the same colours, nothing to do with history' guy grate my cheese a little.

A few months after the Operation cast lead massacres in 2009 Celtic played an Israeli team in the UEFA cup and the whole stadium was fluttering with Palestinian flags (which are a regular feature anyway, for fairly obvious reasons). At the sight of this, one well to do woman started stoating about in my eye line looking for somebody official looking to complain to since it all had 'absolutely nothing to do with football'. The irony of that complaint in a stadium first shovel built by refugees from an occupied country also flying over her head. Anyway, after starting our exchange with 'kindly excuse me, madam', or similar, I leadingly asked whether she also planned to complain about the x-thousand Irish tricolours in the stadium. However, she felt this was completely different, since 'people only fly those because it's Celtic's colours'. The double think circle is complete. :Hanzkiller:Sport's in a different section of the newspaper.

 

well said

 

You have mistaken me for a Scouser.

:nono:

 

You've mistaken me for someone who gives a shit about Ireland.

:nono:

 

Ireland is full of black bastards, and most of them are white. Just bear that in mind.

 

Yeah I've learned that....literary magazines aren't like...well......other magazines that only have dirty pictures in them.



Redolent was the word you needed, and you aren't big enough to admit it. Hopefully the above image will add a few mill to you, if only temporarily.

 

You also learned what a writing style is.

"Reminiscent" is used frequently in literature in the exact way that I used it. You apparently did not know the meaning of the word prior to this. "Redolent" could perhaps be used if one preferred it, but even then it would really been much more appropriate if I'd used singular adjectives in describing your writing, rather than complex concepts (nouns). You would know this if you had any mastery over the language at all and ability to discern nuance in meaning. As it is, you are a dullard and a hack. You tried to sound smart and wound up sounding dumb, and the more you try to save face the dumber you are going to look. It's time for you to sit down and shut up.

 

one of the more unusual e-feuds, this

 

"You possess a niggardly peasant's grasp of 'you understood'!"

"Preposterous tomfoolery!"

 

:laughing:

hey, at least we're not arguing about each other's teeth and height

 

He has me confused with his wife. He thinks he can tell me to sit down and shut up and that I will meekly comply. Of course, its easy for him to confuse me with his wife. He doesn't know what I look like, and he doesn't know what she looks like either. :crafty:

 

agreed. It's actually an interesting, informative argument:bears:::

 

You just remember your blood in this one, turnie :nono:

 

oh snap... it's about to be Anti-Treaty vs. Pro-Treaty part TWO up in this house:fightme:

 

I know you aren't very culturally aware/educated, but it seems like just plain common sense would be sufficient for one to realize that a) most Muslim women don't wear niqab (face covering) and b) Muslim women don't cover their hair or faces in front of their husbands and male family members.

But even if that weren't true, my wife is fluent in 5 languages, whereas you stumble along engaging in self-satisfied childish wordplay to make yourself feel like you've mastered one. She also knows more about boxing than you. So yeah, the difference would be immediately apparent either way.

I didn't order you to sit down and shut up, I just observed that that would be the best course of action for you if you were interested in preserving a shred or two of dignity. I tend to speak to my wife in a much more civil and gentle fashion than I would to some unwashed troglodyte on a messageboard. But I do think it's pretty funny that you attempt to insult me with "oh yeah!! well, your wife shuts up when you tell her to!!" Good one, my man. You really pulled out the nuclear option, there.

 

Admit it...you are one of these people that things education is the be-all and end-all.

What the fuck prompted you to leap in about my "writing style"???

This is a forum. A boxing forum. It's one of the very few places people should go with the flow and just post as they see fit.

Oh and, Urdu, Hindi,, Gujurati and what else? Hindko? English?

 

Arabic, Farsi, French, Urdu, English. I didn't count the other Subcontinental dialects, though they are distinct enough that you really could.

Formal education means nothing to me, I got kicked out of high school when I was 17 and never went back. Writing talent isn't something that can be taught anyway (imo)

 

No such thing as "writing talent"......its like a "great legal mind"....its a fallacy. As I have said before here, from a writing point of view, it helps me immensely if I am asked a question first, because that forces me to focus my attention on giving an answer, which allows whatever "writing talent" I have to come out of me. On the other hand, if you walk up to me and just ask me to write....nothing is likely to happen. Its part of why "Letters to the Editor" in newspapers are usually so readable, because they are usually very very short, narrow pieces. Just as the writer of the piece focused their energies on the topic at hand so as to better effect their letter {and thus have it selected for publishing} we find their letters easy to read because we don't have to work at all hard to settle into the reading of the letter.

None of this is to say that the writer of the letter was talented, merely focused and concise. Once they learned how to write and acquired basic writing skills, the rest was a question of both effort and focus.Its part of the reason why collections of short stories are such massive sellers. The writer makes a point, the reader knows its going to be easy to follow, and so the contract is complete.

Ask me a question, and force me to answer in 20 words or less, and you would find little wrong with the manner in which my answer was presented. Most people are brilliant at just about anything when you force them to work within constraints of time and space, because it focuses their efforts.