Nice take, though a little difficult to shake off the feeling that he set out to make the case he did.
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I don't understand your objection. Of course, its criticisms are deliberate. Of course, a case was made on purpose. This is how essays work. People have a certain view and argue for it.
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Sure. And that f-t-p-q angle takes it into hatchet-job territory. I most certainly do not object to someone doing that. Am merely pointing it out... That should be okay, right?
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Huh? I was questioning your 'sense' that someone had deliberately written a critical essay. It was almost as though you thought these things happen by accident. They don't. People have critical thoughts, think them through and then write them down.
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But by all means, point out that someone wrote an argument on purpose if you think other people might not realise this is how essays work.
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Wait. Where are you picking this sense that I do not understand how an essay works from? It's not implied in my criticism of its weakness.
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Because you said you got the sense that it was a deliberate take-down as tho people hide the fact that they write such things deliberately and pretend they just happen.
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Well, I guess I am hinting, in that case, that this may well be a case of the *unintended* hatchet-job. I don't know enough one way or the other if it was deliberate. That okay? :)
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And it should be okay for me to 'get a sense' that it may have been deliberate. From what I mentioned. I would recommend that you see the tweets that followed that 'inform' this sense. Do you have a problem with my being, possibly, wrong? :)
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Yes, this just interested me because it seems to imply that sometimes people write critical pieces by accident but, in fact, I can't think of a scenario in which that could happen. The writer has to make an argument. The editor has to understand it. They know what they're doing.
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