Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time
by KirinDave on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:47PM
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Would you prefer something more like http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226305334/the-box-on-th... ?
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Not really. I hope I'm not being overly critical, but "a weary customer" is pretty purple prose, and "intelligent enough to be aware of its affect" -- "affect?" C'mon. "Effect."
If this were some other kind of writing, like a forum post or a blog entry, no problem, stuff like that wouldn't faze me. But I think you have to clear a high bar in quality if you're writing some sarcastic & condescending criticism of something else... especially when the "something else" is already aiming at a (relatively) highbrow audience. Otherwise it's not credible to me and not funny.
Not deliberately purple, I suspect: substituting "weary" for "wary" is a pretty common mistake.