SCOTUS decides for Hobby Lobby

[Berkut]

Wordy people can't be smart?

Smart people aren't wordy.  Using more words than necessary isn't the choice smart people make.

What if it isn't a choice?

[garbon]

Wordy people can't be smart?

Smart people aren't wordy.  Using more words than necessary isn't the choice smart people make.

So smart people can't take joy in the use of language, using alternate phrasing to express their ideas?

[crazy canuck]

Wordy people can't be smart?

Smart people aren't wordy.  Using more words than necessary isn't the choice smart people make.

So smart people can't take joy in the use of language, using alternate phrasing to express their ideas?

You think Grumbler knows what smart people do?

[grumbler]

So smart people can't take joy in the use of language, using alternate phrasing to express their ideas?

Why not?

[grumbler]

What if it isn't a choice?

Being smart is almost never a choice.  I'd bet someone like cRazy cAnuck would choose to be smart, if only that were possible.

[garbon]

Wordy people can't be smart?

Smart people aren't wordy.  Using more words than necessary isn't the choice smart people make.

So smart people can't take joy in the use of language, using alternate phrasing to express their ideas?

You think Grumbler knows what smart people do?

I'm just surprised at this idea that 1984-speak is the high watermark of intellect.

And yes, g, I know you didn't see that but that sort of seems like a great example of brevity in speech (using as few words as possible).

[Valmy]

Can we get back to how Cal slandered our fine community? 

[grumbler]

I'm just surprised at this idea that 1984-speak is the high watermark of intellect.

I'm astonished by it as well.  Certainly creating strawman arguments is not the high-water mark of intellect.

And yes, g, I know you didn't see that but that sort of seems like a great example of brevity in speech (using as few words as possible).

There are all kinds of degrees between 1984 and wordiness.  Your argument is a classic false dichotomy.

[grumbler]

Can we get back to how Cal slandered our fine community? 

His "slander" about Siege is probably correct.  Siege has a great shtick, but he has been careless a few times and shown it to be just a shtick.

[crazy canuck]

Wordy people can't be smart?

Smart people aren't wordy.  Using more words than necessary isn't the choice smart people make.

So smart people can't take joy in the use of language, using alternate phrasing to express their ideas?

You think Grumbler knows what smart people do?

I'm just surprised at this idea that 1984-speak is the high watermark of intellect.

And yes, g, I know you didn't see that but that sort of seems like a great example of brevity in speech (using as few words as possible).

Grumbler is confusing something he once heard said by someone who was smart.

I agree with you that smart people normally use descriptive language to communicate their meaning rather than using the shorthand of "double plus good".

[Eddie Teach]

Smart people avoid Internet debates. 

[crazy canuck]

Smart people avoid Internet debates.

[grumbler]

Smart people avoid Internet debates.

There's something we can all agree on.  No smart people here (JR excepted).

[Valmy]

It is so weird how grumbler constantly whines about how much this board and all its members suck (except JR) and are total wastes of time.  Yet he keeps coming back.  Deep down in his black black heart he must actually love us 

[crazy canuck]

It is so weird how grumbler constantly whines about how much this board and all its members suck (except JR) and are total wastes of time.  Yet he keeps coming back.  Deep down in his black black heart he must actually love us 

Or he just isnt very smart.