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I'm reading this book "Birthmarked".
Mar. 28th, 2010 01:11 am
It's another postapocalyptic dystopia, which is why I picked it up.
As dystopias go it's a bit slow-going, but it's not that bad, until I get to the following line: "Her father was an autodidactic tailor who had never needed a pattern". Autodidactic? Autodidactic? What, pray tell, is wrong with the simple phrase self-taught? Sheesh. There's a time and a place for that sort of language. You don't sound smarter for adding more syllables just for the heck of it, you know.
As dystopias go it's a bit slow-going, but it's not that bad, until I get to the following line: "Her father was an autodidactic tailor who had never needed a pattern". Autodidactic? Autodidactic? What, pray tell, is wrong with the simple phrase self-taught? Sheesh. There's a time and a place for that sort of language. You don't sound smarter for adding more syllables just for the heck of it, you know.
