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[WO] Backfire
by
nullius
on 04/10/2020, 03:00:45 UTC
Capisce?  ← Protip:  Try to spell your words of condescension correctly.

I'll just leave this here:

My first intended WO post, never published, was actually begun as a reply to the aforesaid entomonymous cretin

#condescension backfire

What’s wrong?  You are literate in ancient Greek, and you have a scholarly critique of my admittedly amateurish grammar?  Or do you complain that the word I constructed from Greek roots was inadvertently omitted from your dictionary?

Methinks the backfire is on you:  You are not as smart as you believe you are.  Oh, how I desiderate the bygone days when reading was a privilege.

Quote from: Nietzsche
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

“Entomonymous” was a part of a play with “entomoid” on the name of a creature thereby named...


...but if you not only failed to grasp it, but chose to insult me from your own abject illiteracy, why should I reveal to you the secrets of the poet’s art?



P.S., just in case you ever do catch me in such typographical errors as I not infrequently find in my own posts, keep handy my stock answer for criticisms from creatures far below my level:

Am I mortal?  Do I myself sometimes make bizarre typographical errors (usually induced whilst editing) which are not caught by my obsessive exercise of the preview button to read proof?  Alas!  It most saddens me when such a fate befalls one of my precious little belles-lettres.  Nobody has yet dared to flame me over such a triviality; but if or when that happens, my response may be expected to be along these lines:

Quel dommage!  I have erred!  😢  The form of my art is marred by some trivial flaw which dishonours its unavoidable substance!  I will now slap myself in the face with a large trout, and then drink myself into a stupor.  Meanwhile, complaints from my critics shall be filed according to the virtù of their own substances, as measured against mine. 🗑️”