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Poll: Personal feedback (serious). Do you find my tweets to be:
  • cryptic but not obscure
    17%
  • obscure but not cryptic
    29.6%
  • both obscure and cryptic
    26.9%
  • neither
    26.5%
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I think you are revisiting & teasing the idea of "illegible" and dividing it into obscure vs cryptic. Obscure means something the speaker is genuinely unsure about, and cryptic is a sure message meant only for a few. This reading of your mood is of course both.
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I think of obscure as simply referentially obscure. Not being sure of what I'm saying is a whole other third variable. That mainly manifests as jokiness.
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