Hmmm good points both I think. I will mull them overnight.
I hadn't thought about the "far fetched" thing undermining my arguments. Hmm. I sort of couldn't bring myself not to point out the limitations of the age limit thing, but maybe I should restrain myself.
The slang thing, I know I do that and I get great enjoyment from it while I'm writing, although I tend to edit most of them out as I go along. It's something about the mixing of impeccable grammar with colloquial turn of phrase, and the imagining of the enjoyment of the civil service person reading it who has to plod through dull dull dull officialese every day :-)
but will certainly get rid of "dodgy pictures", as I changed my mind about that anyway (decided I don't want to inadvertently be taken as endorsing their biased view of what constitutes "dodgy").
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Date: 2005-12-02 12:14 am (UTC)I hadn't thought about the "far fetched" thing undermining my arguments. Hmm. I sort of couldn't bring myself not to point out the limitations of the age limit thing, but maybe I should restrain myself.
The slang thing, I know I do that and I get great enjoyment from it while I'm writing, although I tend to edit most of them out as I go along. It's something about the mixing of impeccable grammar with colloquial turn of phrase, and the imagining of the enjoyment of the civil service person reading it who has to plod through dull dull dull officialese every day :-)
but will certainly get rid of "dodgy pictures", as I changed my mind about that anyway (decided I don't want to inadvertently be taken as endorsing their biased view of what constitutes "dodgy").
Thanks!
more thoughts welcome...