On Manti Te'o scandal and media complicity

[Calzone Lord]

Writing something with that much truth and a little profanity sprinkled in probably won't help his cause in that regard ... but it was a great take with great content. I shared it on Facebook.

In terms of finding something to nitpick about -- for my taste, I think he's giving his readers a little too much credit with his writing sytle.

Don't get carried away with the Thesaurus and flaunt all that Vocab.

Words like feckless, vestiges, facade, obfuscate, nadir, hagiography are words people almost never use. One is good, two is okay, but after that it can get a bit distracting and even annoying when you feel you need to look up a word you don't know for the second God damn time while reading a sports column.

Writers take: A+ Content of material: A+ Number of times I stopped reading it to look up the definition of a word: 3

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Writing something with that much truth and a little profanity sprinkled in probably won't help his cause in that regard ... but it was a great take with great content. I shared it on Facebook.

In terms of finding something to nitpick about -- for my taste, I think he's giving his readers a little too much credit with his writing sytle.

Don't get carried away with the Thesaurus and flaunt all that Vocab.

Words like feckless, vestiges, facade, obfuscate, nadir, hagiography are words people almost never use. One is good, two is okay, but after that it can get a bit distracting and even annoying when you feel you need to look up a word you don't know for the second God damn time while reading a sports column.

Writers take: A+ Content of material: A+ Number of times I stopped reading it to look up the definition of a word: 3

no, i disagree. keep the multisyllabic words...then some readers will not look them up, and then attempt to use them in a sentence and they'll use it incorrectly. cracks me up.
when a football announcer referred to peyton hillis (because of his pic on madden)as an iconoclast i laughed my ass off. he should have just said icon, but no, he had to go for the gold.