Keerist...

Most anyone with a decent education is able to parse a sentence. Few
take the trouble. The problem is that even if the shovel is
gold-plated, the information being cast about may not be as good as the
shovel.

Frequent publication:

Not necessarily so. Those who respect the English (any, comes to it)
language will try to say what they mean and mean what they say.
Shakespeare put it most aptly when he wrote: Brevity is the soul of
wit. Dickens was paid by the word, so in his case, he had a special
interest in fulsome writing over the elegant and economical conveyance
of information. The presumption (at least on my part) is that this
venue should value information over style, and judge the information
and its clarity rather than the surrounding fluff and flummery.

All kidding aside, elegant prose with the sole and only purpose being
character assasination, even if perceived by the writer as true and
just, is so sad. I know absolutely nothing about Andre Jute except what
he has exposed to us here, and then only recently, and a litte from his
website. But, those things that are obvious are that he has a very
large and very fragile ego, and that he is the living embodyment of the
Peter Pan syndrome. I suspect that if one tip-toes around his ego, and
if one makes due provision for his self-image (not hardly the same
thing), he could be a very nice fellow....

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA