You seem offended that his post was greeted with less than slavish agreement. Oh well.
Your writing style is remarkably similar to Mr. Sumcad's. Are you a student of his?
He just signed up to day...
Methinks...the author himself ?????????
What kind of English is this?
It is so shameful for one to criticize the writing of a journalist-awardee the way you do. Your presence in this forum embarrasses us all. Look at your writing one more time. You cannot even write straight English. How can you criticize an award-winning journalist’s writing without making yourself look like a juvenile clown?
Are you serious? I am not defending Sumcad, the author. But let us not be like drunks when we criticize. Let us write down a critique of his works to our heart’s content. But please if you do criticize, let’s do it right. Don’t blow a hole in our heads as if like you, we are all retarded.
This is what I mean when I said I was “shocked” to discover that there is a bunch of playful Katzenjammer Kids that strayed into this space who need to be taught how to write and understand excellent composition. Those of us who want to criticize must earned their right to criticize reasonably, and must show that they can write a critique in correct English.
Let me quote your other comment Madame Defarge, just to be sure that you understand what I am saying here. You said:
“His "background as a writer and academician is irrelevant if he can't make his thoughts clearly understood and seems unwilling to defend the article and/or clarify points he's been questioned on.”
Then you continued: “You seem offended that his post was greeted with less than slavish agreement. Oh well.
And finally, you asked: “Your writing style is remarkably similar to Mr. Sumcad's. Are you a student of his?”
First of all, I am not “offended”. I said I was shocked. Learn to read my pen and know how I write, and please understand what I wrote.
And you pilloried the author: “… he can’t make his thoughts clearly understood…”
Well, only those English authorities who gave the writer awards for his writings clearly understood his thoughts in a style of writing they believed was unique. It is not for you … you have no idea what the writer was writing about. With your kindergarten English, how can you understand him? I say to you … no way, Jose.
You must know that the editorial that the writer wrote was not meant for ambulant vendors or gravediggers, don’t you see? It is not also meant for you, and those who write English like the way you do.
The editorials was attempting to reach a specific audience, particularly the “intellectuals” in Congress and their “learned” supporters who wanted to criminalize undocumented immigrants and shoot them dead if they resist arrest, and the “geniuses” of the radical Left and their liberal lapdogs who think our border officers deserved to be shot by illegal aliens.
I really do not mean to offend you, but it is you yourself who showed that you cannot write English correctly, and the written editorial piece you criticized is not for you.
And this sounds like paranoia. You think that I write “remarkably similar to Mr. Sumcad’s” … I can see the uniqueness of Sumcad’s writing style. In this forum, I wish I could write like him, but please don’t embarrass Sumcad or Shakespeare by comparing me or yourself, to any of them! You may get sued for willful infliction of injury.
What is real is that the broken English that you wrote makes you “remarkably similar” to my four-year-old granddaughter whose writing her mother is trying to improve [just a statement of facts, no offense intended].
I agree with comment No. 40, that perhaps there is a “communist troll” in disguise. But it could never be this author that the comment was refering to. Those ignorant of his writings are unaware that the radical Left consider him one of their worst enemies. Don’t be lazy. Scroll down the Web. You can never be wrong about him if you know where to locate his writings.
A “troll” has to cover his disguise. One way of doing it is to accuse someone else of being a troll to divert attention away from him. I invite your attention to comment No. 40 and watch the birdie.
And the “Old Professor” in comment No. 24 is too old to know modern editorial writings. Development journalism [see the author’s background] is too far away from what he knew that is still standing and had never moved, from where he is now!
This leads me back to search for a sensible comment, like looking for a needle in a haystack. JimSEA, you can share your light of knowledge on this issue, especially those who badly need it. Those tigers have no teeth – just paper cats.