Dammit, I demand feedback!

[andrewducker]

I know my writing is imperfect.

I know that sometimes I'm unclear.

I know that sometimes I'm wrong.

I know that most of you are damn smart.

Dammit, I demand more feedback on the long-winded articles I write!

Nick - cheers muchly for all the feedback. You're da man.

Comments

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

I beg forgiveness. I am too analytical, and endeavor never to give an answer where I cannot give a considered answer, and when things effluviate all over the place, it is far too much work for me.

[andrewducker]

Dammit, it was you the comment was aimed at.

Darn philosophy doctors without enough time.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

I suspected as much. Hence the pounce.
It's not so much not enough time-- I always read through your posts, and often more than once. Yet, like I say, I'm of a very analytical turn of mind, and I don't like to offer comment where it isn't informed, and when the discussion os of matters so far ranging as categorisation and linguistic custom-- about which I have read enough to know that I have only the barest beginning of a background in the historical formulation of the issues-- I prefer to read and be silent. Anyway, I have a fault in that I often forget that my technical terms are technical terms, and think other people will understand precisely what I mean when I use a particular turn of phrase, when in fact the term means nothing to people outside my field or something quite different colloquially, and I've never learned the colloquial meaning because I'm such a turtle.
Also, I may be a doctor of philosophy, but that hardly matters unless you're talking property supervenience. A lot of other people reading your posts are in much better positions to answer, and perhaps not being so concerned with the partial rememberings of temporally distant confusions and the need to clarify them through much reading before they feel competetent to comment, by which point the discussion will have moved on to something entirely different, will do so.
So, you see, it's really just me. ;)