Online Interest
Your comments, thoughts, suggestions, issues, and insight are always welcome. Please feel free to reply to any or all of my posts. The other day I came across an interesting post: No one appreciates more or adores the obscure like yours truly. However, it was the comments below this post that had me wondering about readership capabilities and the author's responsibility towards them. A few, like me, appreciate these handy tid-bits of information and would like to use them in their work while a majority of the respondents said nay, that if the word is obscure, then the reader will turn away. What got me riled up was a remark about not wanting to send their readers to a dictionary -- ever. As a child, I remember a 5th grade reader that had a glossary in the back. I poured over that thing like it was diamonds and rubies and pearls. Later, I would write down every word that I wasn't familiar with and then go home to open our family dictionary and look them up...