• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Maybe their are situations when a rambling word salad is the right answer, but I haven’t come across any, yet.

    • Maeve@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Break it down sentence by sentence. It’s neither rambling, nor word salad.

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        6 months ago

        Analysis is breaking something apart to consider its pieces.

        A classic move that avoids the work of analysis is to assign a judgment to an entire unit, without any reference to its specific parts.

        A lot of work has gone into making this a culturally-accepted method of response, but now that it is it’s like an instant win for the person eschewing the analysis with a mic drop insult.

        Overall, the pattern tends to block the interaction of ideas.

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          6 months ago

          I wasn’t trying to be insulting, I was trying to lazily browse before sleep, and the reply to an offhand musing seemed frankly rude in tone.

          Sometimes it’s okay to analyze further than an initial thought for days without replying and sometimes it’s ok to make a considered comment weekend a detailed analysis on the spot while browsing the Internet.