JohnV
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
[u:4ba614afcf]First, a note to the Admins and Mods:[/u:4ba614afcf]
Instead of just making a suggestion, I hope you don't mind if I open this up for discussion first. I have no right to make such a decision, and I mean no disrespect. Rather I am anticipating your just and kind rulership in this matter. We wouldn't want to open up a new forum that won't get used. I certainly don't like the idea of my being all alone in this forum, answering my own posts, should it be implemented.
[u:4ba614afcf]The Suggestion[/u:4ba614afcf]
This is both a suggestion as well as subject for discussion. I hope I put this in the proper forum:
I have been using my posting to try to say things in as clear a way as I can manage. I try to avoid the use of italics, bold, underlines, brackets, and such like conveniences, so that it forces me to say things with a better command of language. It is a discipline that I like to add to my thinking, and so convey my thinking in a better way. And that is why my posts may sound strange to you, sometimes trying to sound more scholastic than I really am.
I notice in journalism, such as in newspapers, that the commodity of time has allowed, or perhaps forced a degrading of the discipline of spelling, grammar, and appropriate wording. I think that we could do well by affording a little discipline ourselves as we hurry to post our latest thoughts or concerns. It would be helpful to our own thinking especially. [i:4ba614afcf]Writing makes a more precise man[/i:4ba614afcf], to paraphrase as well known saying.
May I propose that we have a forum in which we can trade ideas on how to phrase our ideas to more precision? Our Board displays a wide array of disciplines already, demonstrating Christ's sovereignty and aving power over all of life for each of us, no matter our interests and concerns. This is one area yet uncovered by this Board. But it would be nice to know if there is enough interest in this suggestion so that the Administrators would know if it is worthwhile. I'd like to talk about it first, to see there are others who would like this idea, because I don't suppose it would be a very busy forum. We could do this in the Library as well; but I think it deserves its' own place. Indeed, I hope it becomes a well used forum.
What are your thoughts? A writer's forum? or no?
Instead of just making a suggestion, I hope you don't mind if I open this up for discussion first. I have no right to make such a decision, and I mean no disrespect. Rather I am anticipating your just and kind rulership in this matter. We wouldn't want to open up a new forum that won't get used. I certainly don't like the idea of my being all alone in this forum, answering my own posts, should it be implemented.
[u:4ba614afcf]The Suggestion[/u:4ba614afcf]
This is both a suggestion as well as subject for discussion. I hope I put this in the proper forum:
I have been using my posting to try to say things in as clear a way as I can manage. I try to avoid the use of italics, bold, underlines, brackets, and such like conveniences, so that it forces me to say things with a better command of language. It is a discipline that I like to add to my thinking, and so convey my thinking in a better way. And that is why my posts may sound strange to you, sometimes trying to sound more scholastic than I really am.
I notice in journalism, such as in newspapers, that the commodity of time has allowed, or perhaps forced a degrading of the discipline of spelling, grammar, and appropriate wording. I think that we could do well by affording a little discipline ourselves as we hurry to post our latest thoughts or concerns. It would be helpful to our own thinking especially. [i:4ba614afcf]Writing makes a more precise man[/i:4ba614afcf], to paraphrase as well known saying.
May I propose that we have a forum in which we can trade ideas on how to phrase our ideas to more precision? Our Board displays a wide array of disciplines already, demonstrating Christ's sovereignty and aving power over all of life for each of us, no matter our interests and concerns. This is one area yet uncovered by this Board. But it would be nice to know if there is enough interest in this suggestion so that the Administrators would know if it is worthwhile. I'd like to talk about it first, to see there are others who would like this idea, because I don't suppose it would be a very busy forum. We could do this in the Library as well; but I think it deserves its' own place. Indeed, I hope it becomes a well used forum.
What are your thoughts? A writer's forum? or no?