“He made his own literal Bibles and signed them wtfff 😂 “

I know somebody who suffered a withering put-down from JCO in front of a group of people, and he relishes telling the story

Oh my god I see them… Imagine starting a reply to a stranger “Aww poor baby”

That makes sense, it wasn’t written to be delivered by somebody with an innate sense of irony or embarrassment

If I don’t “like” one of your replies rest assured I am clicking away madly over here

I had a young American intern who clicked with appreciation whenever somebody in the office said something she agreed with

I feel like the length is one factor causing the bad reading, because it encourages people to skim.

No divorced man could have produced Common’s “Be” tho. He contains multitudes (some of which are married)

I have often complained about the inability of BlueSky people to distinguish between the descriptive and the normative, but at a certain point it’s my own fault for not pricing that inability in to how I express myself.

Well put!

A simple “(and I think that’s good/bad)” at the end of every sentence you write provides clarity and reassurance to your readers

It’s a Rorschach test

An example in literature would be Brideshead Revisited, The story of a merchant-class man who is extremely posh by most people’s standards – public school, Oxford, antique collector father – but finds himself in the presence of titled mansion-dwellers where he’s a sort of novelty commoner.

The border between the well-off, red-trousered gentleman’s-entrance class whose forebears were not necessarily nobility as such, and the titled people who may be rich or broke but are ineffably posh regardless of circumstance, seems like a very hard one to cross.

Do you make a distinction bettween the English upper class and the gentry?