My Two Cents on Readability by m n m n I

I'm all for readability
I like to use simple words as much as possible
but words have their effects
I'm not about to lose the effect I wanted to convey (oops, or 'to get across' -- you know what I mean?)
striving to be simple, coming up with writing so plain . . . I might as well chew chicken raw
That's when figurative writing comes into play
Even science can be expressed figuratively
Some words have a common meaning with other words
We call them synonyms
But when you want to be precise with your use of words
you can't just substitute one for the other
You must find the appropriate word according to your intention
Each synonym has its intrinsic meaning
And if you have a character in a story of a certain education --
That character would be using certain words normal with his education
Without going nuts from soup to nuts 
There's more to readability than meets the eye
There's more to calling a spade a spade . . .

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Comments

Evita Sagalongos

18 February 2010

mnmnI, 

Please see my comment at Grampa's story.  I understand you overall point.

Evita Sagalongos

18 February 2010

I meant "your overall point".  With this, hope to read your short story one day =)

m n m n I

18 February 2010

Read all of them
Check my comment on Grampa's

churchmouse

18 February 2010

Just posted an article above yours which proves the point

Evita Sagalongos

19 February 2010

I replied to your comments kindly check on Grampa's story

Keiron

20 March 2010

True enough! So many memorable characters in fiction are testimony to this! (To pick a less well-known one here, now sprung fresh to my to mind).
 I'll never forget going to see Sean O'Casey's famous play 'The Plough and the Stars' a few years ago in Dublin's Abbey Theatre and hearing one of the main character's 'Fluter' oft repeated assertion ' . . . sure there's nothing derogatory wrong with me . . . .' So comical a phrase whenever uttered by this peculiar ragged-coated man, born to and educated in the slums of Dublin, the word 'derogatory' makes him instantly likeable and recognisable.

m n m n I

25 March 2010

Thank you for your comment, Bellisimo
and for sharing the pointer by Hemingway

Also see: Main Characters Separate Part 3 (Final) (Teresa) • Main Characters Separate Part 2 (Teresa) • Main characters separate Part 1 (Teresa) • The Blue Folder - Twenty-One (Grampa Pogi) • Survivor or Victim? (louise) • Memoirs of a Feng-Shui Sifu: Chapter 1 (bobchoi) • Memories (Tessa38) • Bobbys Secret - first draft update (coolhand) • my thoughts on the journey - more an article than anything else (fannyfrances) • The good luck shop (churchmouse)

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