rehess wrote:
We have two cats. When one of my daughters is about to visit with her two cats, one-at-a-time I hold our cats on my lap and soothingly talk about being nice to other cats. Our cats purr - they like the attention - but as far as they're concerned, I might as well be saying blah-blah-blah. If I stand up and say "Food!", though, they lead me to their bowls in the kitchen.
I'm like our cats. My undergraduate study was as a math major with a physics minor. I can follow long discussions if I want to, but these days I prefer Twitter-like brevity. I find that most explanations relating to ETTR, both pro and con, here consist of long intimidating paragraphs - lots of long paragraphs per post. I have found that even if I ask a short simple question, posts which may be meant to respond typically consist of more torrents of words. If something is to be useful to me, and I'm guessing many others are like me, it needs to be expressed simply, low in word count and high in application.
We have two cats. When one of my daughters is abou... (
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And you are not guilty of violating your stated concept when you add all that unnecessary information about your cats? Then you compound the problem with unnecessary verbosity in the following paragraph.