zeusbheld
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can you really criticize someone's ability to sing well? or manage a football team? of course you can.MDLVKM3 said:"Someone needs to put down her thesaurus"
Can you really criticise someone's ability to write well?
if you can't criticize someone's ability to write well, there are a lot of universities that will go under, or at least release their English, Journalism, Film, and Creative Writing professors and cancel their programs. she's obviously very proud of whatever university she attended, although i suspect her writing professors may be cringing quite a bit at her prose.
the point isn't that she uses big words. the point is that she uses big words when it doesn't help her express herself more precisely. being shamelessly pompous myself at times, i'm not fazed by big words, but those big words have to be doing something besides saying "look how clever i am!"The woman has a large vocabulary. Do you need to be semi-retarded to be accepted? I was going to say monosyllabic but feared that I may be accused of using big words.
i would rate Ricky Gervais as a lot funnier than her, yet he seems to get away with using conversational tones rather brilliantly. nonetheless, you have a good point in that tone and diction level are the key to written comedy or satire. however, her tone and diction only works if she's making fun of her own pretensions.Humour, particularly written humour, is constructed by creating images, scenarios and situations. Using specific terminology enables writers to create a more detailed picture rather than using lots of conversational tones. Satire is to do with excessively presenting an unbalanced argument a la the jokes we have about Blair etc. It wouldn't be funny if we didn't exagerrate and weren't biased to his shortcomings.
there's a word for her kind of prose: purple. it isn't considered flattering.
By the way, I'm a misogynist, but I think Marina actually has ability which makes her ok in my book, whether she has a failed attempt at trying to satirise Cookie.
how does that make you a misogynist? as in, someone who categorically hates women? i'm confused by that.
in a way, i'm more offended by her writing style than her content. she squanders her ability in a self-aggrandizing, flashy manner, rather than using it to express herself more precisely. i'm just glad i don't agree with her; her prose is embarrassing even to someone as pretentious as me.
when it comes to humor i'll stick to reading the likes of Douglas Adams, Mark Twain or Wodehouse. They're not very current but on a different plane than her pretentious posturing.