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Aug. 26th, 2006
Advanced Literacy
Aug. 26th, 2006 07:38 pm”Literacy – the ability to read and write.
Literate – Literacy in the country has increased, with the literate proportion of the population rising to 52.1% from 43.6% a decade ago.” (From ”Cambridge International Dictionary of English”)
”Literacy – ability to read and write
Literate – 1 able to read and write 2 cultured; well-read.” (From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English”)
How does that translate into an RPG being literate, a post or a member literate, a requirement for acceptation literacy? How is a RPG cultured, or well-read?
Study the interaction of a conversation the next time you happen to have one in RL. Oh, bugger, there really isn’t many flashbacks to the torments of the past or philosophical questions pondered during one, is there? (Yeah, I know, ’tis sad. It really is such a great way to write a huge post.) And I’d be darned if a conversation doesn’t turn out to consist of your average one-liner, a few movements of the hands and eyes, and the occasional laugh.
Quality over quantity; how does post-length qualify for status as an ”advanced role-player”, or an ”advanced role-play”? Posts filled to bursting with flashbacks, eye colours, cheekbone shapes, philosophical pondering and adverbs does not make anyone or –thing advanced. I have no need of knowing he spoke angrily, or looked sad, about every character, every other post. Role-playing is not about substituting words for real-life sight. Read a novel, a good novel, by a good author, and have a look at the dynamics of the writing. Notice how everything floats very smoothly, how every transition (character, scene or otherwise) is hardly notable? See how the dialogue runs quite flawlessly, without adverbs describing the characters voice every other line? Good writing means you don’t need adverbs to describe feelings, the words, narrative or dialogue portrays them expertly on it’s own. The weather’s bad, there’s wind, lightning and bloody trees flying past your window – fine, I don’t care. Weather belongs in a first post, if at all there. If you need to comment on it, do it in passing, as an afterthought: “Oh, darn, it’s raining again. Now my all my flowers will drown.”
Advanced is not about length, it’s about quality!
A 50 word post, well-written, to the point and interesting is a world more advanced than a 2000 word monstrosity begging on its knees for the reader’s continued attention.
Literacy is an incredibly silly term. And Advanced comes close to being the most ridiculous thing I’ve read about role-playing for quite some time.
Originally written for/posted at the RPGC, but I felt like leaving it here for storage purposes.
Literate – Literacy in the country has increased, with the literate proportion of the population rising to 52.1% from 43.6% a decade ago.” (From ”Cambridge International Dictionary of English”)
”Literacy – ability to read and write
Literate – 1 able to read and write 2 cultured; well-read.” (From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English”)
How does that translate into an RPG being literate, a post or a member literate, a requirement for acceptation literacy? How is a RPG cultured, or well-read?
Study the interaction of a conversation the next time you happen to have one in RL. Oh, bugger, there really isn’t many flashbacks to the torments of the past or philosophical questions pondered during one, is there? (Yeah, I know, ’tis sad. It really is such a great way to write a huge post.) And I’d be darned if a conversation doesn’t turn out to consist of your average one-liner, a few movements of the hands and eyes, and the occasional laugh.
Quality over quantity; how does post-length qualify for status as an ”advanced role-player”, or an ”advanced role-play”? Posts filled to bursting with flashbacks, eye colours, cheekbone shapes, philosophical pondering and adverbs does not make anyone or –thing advanced. I have no need of knowing he spoke angrily, or looked sad, about every character, every other post. Role-playing is not about substituting words for real-life sight. Read a novel, a good novel, by a good author, and have a look at the dynamics of the writing. Notice how everything floats very smoothly, how every transition (character, scene or otherwise) is hardly notable? See how the dialogue runs quite flawlessly, without adverbs describing the characters voice every other line? Good writing means you don’t need adverbs to describe feelings, the words, narrative or dialogue portrays them expertly on it’s own. The weather’s bad, there’s wind, lightning and bloody trees flying past your window – fine, I don’t care. Weather belongs in a first post, if at all there. If you need to comment on it, do it in passing, as an afterthought: “Oh, darn, it’s raining again. Now my all my flowers will drown.”
Advanced is not about length, it’s about quality!
A 50 word post, well-written, to the point and interesting is a world more advanced than a 2000 word monstrosity begging on its knees for the reader’s continued attention.
Literacy is an incredibly silly term. And Advanced comes close to being the most ridiculous thing I’ve read about role-playing for quite some time.
Originally written for/posted at the RPGC, but I felt like leaving it here for storage purposes.
Advanced Literacy
Aug. 26th, 2006 07:38 pm”Literacy – the ability to read and write.
Literate – Literacy in the country has increased, with the literate proportion of the population rising to 52.1% from 43.6% a decade ago.” (From ”Cambridge International Dictionary of English”)
”Literacy – ability to read and write
Literate – 1 able to read and write 2 cultured; well-read.” (From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English”)
How does that translate into an RPG being literate, a post or a member literate, a requirement for acceptation literacy? How is a RPG cultured, or well-read?
Study the interaction of a conversation the next time you happen to have one in RL. Oh, bugger, there really isn’t many flashbacks to the torments of the past or philosophical questions pondered during one, is there? (Yeah, I know, ’tis sad. It really is such a great way to write a huge post.) And I’d be darned if a conversation doesn’t turn out to consist of your average one-liner, a few movements of the hands and eyes, and the occasional laugh.
Quality over quantity; how does post-length qualify for status as an ”advanced role-player”, or an ”advanced role-play”? Posts filled to bursting with flashbacks, eye colours, cheekbone shapes, philosophical pondering and adverbs does not make anyone or –thing advanced. I have no need of knowing he spoke angrily, or looked sad, about every character, every other post. Role-playing is not about substituting words for real-life sight. Read a novel, a good novel, by a good author, and have a look at the dynamics of the writing. Notice how everything floats very smoothly, how every transition (character, scene or otherwise) is hardly notable? See how the dialogue runs quite flawlessly, without adverbs describing the characters voice every other line? Good writing means you don’t need adverbs to describe feelings, the words, narrative or dialogue portrays them expertly on it’s own. The weather’s bad, there’s wind, lightning and bloody trees flying past your window – fine, I don’t care. Weather belongs in a first post, if at all there. If you need to comment on it, do it in passing, as an afterthought: “Oh, darn, it’s raining again. Now my all my flowers will drown.”
Advanced is not about length, it’s about quality!
A 50 word post, well-written, to the point and interesting is a world more advanced than a 2000 word monstrosity begging on its knees for the reader’s continued attention.
Literacy is an incredibly silly term. And Advanced comes close to being the most ridiculous thing I’ve read about role-playing for quite some time.
Originally written for/posted at the RPGC, but I felt like leaving it here for storage purposes.
Literate – Literacy in the country has increased, with the literate proportion of the population rising to 52.1% from 43.6% a decade ago.” (From ”Cambridge International Dictionary of English”)
”Literacy – ability to read and write
Literate – 1 able to read and write 2 cultured; well-read.” (From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English”)
How does that translate into an RPG being literate, a post or a member literate, a requirement for acceptation literacy? How is a RPG cultured, or well-read?
Study the interaction of a conversation the next time you happen to have one in RL. Oh, bugger, there really isn’t many flashbacks to the torments of the past or philosophical questions pondered during one, is there? (Yeah, I know, ’tis sad. It really is such a great way to write a huge post.) And I’d be darned if a conversation doesn’t turn out to consist of your average one-liner, a few movements of the hands and eyes, and the occasional laugh.
Quality over quantity; how does post-length qualify for status as an ”advanced role-player”, or an ”advanced role-play”? Posts filled to bursting with flashbacks, eye colours, cheekbone shapes, philosophical pondering and adverbs does not make anyone or –thing advanced. I have no need of knowing he spoke angrily, or looked sad, about every character, every other post. Role-playing is not about substituting words for real-life sight. Read a novel, a good novel, by a good author, and have a look at the dynamics of the writing. Notice how everything floats very smoothly, how every transition (character, scene or otherwise) is hardly notable? See how the dialogue runs quite flawlessly, without adverbs describing the characters voice every other line? Good writing means you don’t need adverbs to describe feelings, the words, narrative or dialogue portrays them expertly on it’s own. The weather’s bad, there’s wind, lightning and bloody trees flying past your window – fine, I don’t care. Weather belongs in a first post, if at all there. If you need to comment on it, do it in passing, as an afterthought: “Oh, darn, it’s raining again. Now my all my flowers will drown.”
Advanced is not about length, it’s about quality!
A 50 word post, well-written, to the point and interesting is a world more advanced than a 2000 word monstrosity begging on its knees for the reader’s continued attention.
Literacy is an incredibly silly term. And Advanced comes close to being the most ridiculous thing I’ve read about role-playing for quite some time.
Originally written for/posted at the RPGC, but I felt like leaving it here for storage purposes.