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Saturday, May 14, 2005

Self-obsessed exhibitionist

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"What kind of sad individual posts their own diary on the internet, as if thousands of total strangers would ever be interested in their lives? An arrogant, self-obsessed exhibitionist perhaps?"

Ouch, that hurts! This is from the Guardian's The Guide. But they fail to realize one thing, or actually a couple:
1. Who says that the purpose of this blog is to attract the attention of thousands of total strangers? I would be very happy with just a few hundred;
2. If you are a total stranger who is reading this (Hi, I'm Mark), then you are showing some degree of interest in my ranting, and this blog has at least some purpose;
3. They say arrogant, self-obsessed exhibitionist as if it's a bad thing.

If you are a (fellow) pedant, you might say: that's three points, not a couple. You are wrong. A couple is a fuzzy concept, with a typical value of two, but three, four or even maybe five are not outside the set. Wordnet agrees with me, giving as the first definition: n 1: a small indefinite number. There's nothing wrong with being a pedant, but at least get your facts straight, or consult a dictionary.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Word!

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