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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%
294 votesFinal results
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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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So both "obscure" and "cryptic" are messages meant only for a few, but cryptic is finely targeted ("you know who you are") while obscure is scattershot ("you know what I mean / you happened to have read the same books").
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I tend to be obscure out of laziness, and cryptic out of incompetence. I don't actually like being inaccessible. It's a side effect of other things being more important than accessibility.
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