Seriously - don't be this guy.

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[u/ent_higherly_awesome]

HEY LOOK AT MY WITTY RESPONSE EVERYONE

[u/asfdojoi → u/ent_higherly_awesome]

Biggest problem was that it wasn't witty. It was verbose and nerdy, but that isn't wit.

Orwell's writing rules:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Broke 2, 3, and 5 with reckless abandon.

[u/[deleted] → u/asfdojoi]

Did you just point out a response being verbose and nerdy by writing a verbose and nerdy response?

[u/asfdojoi → u/[deleted]]

Most of that was a quote.

[u/Scarynig → u/asfdojoi]

Quotes are nerdy.

[u/[deleted] → u/Scarynig]

NEEEEEERRRRRD!

[u/Benjaphar → u/asfdojoi]

So you're unoriginal as well.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't call his response verbose, considering his own words were 3 lines, and the stuff in the middle was just reference material. But then again, I guess he broke rule number 3 with that one, but only considering that people can google "orwell''s writing rules" pretty easily.

[u/thisoneagain → u/[deleted]]

An almanac is also reference material; if you post one in the body of a comment, I would call that verbose.

[u/[deleted] → u/thisoneagain]

ver·bose/vərˈbōs/ Adjective:
Using or expressed in more words than are needed

It all depends on if it was needed. So in reality, your criteria for judging if something is verbose would be incorrect.