tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335225799942938922.post1303703384276872732..comments2023-11-05T02:45:26.790-05:00Comments on ScotchFiend: Long Comment on Roissy about US and Western DeclineScotchFiendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305353862849309788noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335225799942938922.post-88145642177793624142009-02-12T13:30:00.000-05:002009-02-12T13:30:00.000-05:00Thanks for the feedback.Yeah, the Dude thing is me...Thanks for the feedback.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, the Dude thing is me using my casual voice.<BR/><BR/>I'm still a bit new to writing these sort of essays so I've got some room to improve my style, punctuation and grammar. I plan to look at a book or two over the next few months towards this end.ScotchFiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05305353862849309788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335225799942938922.post-59442344574093772852009-02-12T04:24:00.000-05:002009-02-12T04:24:00.000-05:00Italics for emphasis come off as classier and more...Italics for emphasis come off as classier and more sophisticated, but the occasional all-caps word shouldn't hurt. Less is more, though.<BR/><BR/>In the above post you've got, "I'm just a Dude," which looks more like a typo, and "indicators of American and Western Decline," which rings my crackpot bell. Capitalizing portentous phrases like "Western Decline" tends to look strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335225799942938922.post-84465304077509686912009-02-12T02:09:00.000-05:002009-02-12T02:09:00.000-05:00Thanks for the suggestion.When I created that comm...Thanks for the suggestion.<BR/><BR/>When I created that comment I was foolishly thinking that:<BR/><BR/>1) Bolding might help some people that had non-standard readers capture the emphasis,<BR/><BR/>2) It would be ease the reading of such a massive post by being less visually monotonous.<BR/><BR/>I'm not going to bold anymore but I do kinda like the occasional all caps word or phrase for emphasis. Do you think this has the same crackpot vibe?ScotchFiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05305353862849309788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335225799942938922.post-67160100734295445802009-02-12T00:29:00.000-05:002009-02-12T00:29:00.000-05:00SF, I followed you here from Roissy's because I th...SF, I followed you here from Roissy's because I think you make a lot of sense. That said, I'll echo some of the other commenters there and recommend you watch the unorthodox capitalization. For some reason, unstable whackos really seem to like odd capitalization, and it's a shame to lose credibility over something so minor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com