Don’t let adverbs get in the way of your insightful opinions.

I’m a loyal Noynoy supporter, but I disagree with the President as far as the Abad Family is concerned. In my mind, the ethical piece was clearly missing in the appointment and it became the more distasteful with the media barrage of their qualification pronouncements. The irony now is that, with their qualification/credentials argument, this whole thing is now being seen as arrogance and abuse of power.

It’s wrong no matter which angle you look at it. It’s not about their credentials; it’s not about their qualifications. It’s about leadership, nurturing future leaders and believing and trusting other able & qualified Filipinos other than this family. It’s also very much about ethics and conflict of interest. It’s about equality of rule application. You don’t apply a different rule to your enemy and exempt your friends. You don’t create an environment that cultivates bad culture and gives rise to corrupt practices. Instead you prevent these conditions from happening.

These are my opinions. And no, I don’t use a thesaurus when I write. I don’t even have a grammar check. I write raw with no pretensions.

Thank you.

Yeah. The article explains it much better than I can.

Now that I think about it, I guess saying that it’s encouraged is going a bit too far since I have no real proof of that other than the impenetrable walls of text that most young writers I’ve met seem to like shitting out.

Writing like you’ve swallowed a thesaurus and spending paragraphs on things because the writer insists on using flowery language is seen as a mark of sophistication in my experience in writing circles. Personally I see it as a mark that the writer is probably a pretentious douchebag. Sort of like the feeling you get when you see a bunch of hipsters posturing.

@M: Well, sure. Alone, it would probably deserve a Nobel prize.
But it has a posse.