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Is it an affectation if you don't notice you're doing it?
This would be a sort of IFIAYAQD! sort of thing but it's Tuesday and I just can't justify it.
This morning I was writing an email to a friend about job advice. And at the end, I glanced back at it and--
You've probably seen me do this before. I had started celebrating language again. Baroque sentence structure. Words you can't even find in the New York Times any more, maybe in an Austen novel. You know how I do, you've been riding dirty with me before. It was fun to read, and it had been fun to write once I thought about it. I had more than one person remark about this phenomenon in the last story I finished.
This friend is wikkid smart and I'm pretty sure I'm not talking over his head. I *hope* I'm not making him work too hard to read it, because I'm asking for his frickin' help.
The actual question part: Does writing like that in a situation that does not require it (eg a Wodehouse short story or something) make me a pretentious git?
This morning I was writing an email to a friend about job advice. And at the end, I glanced back at it and--
You've probably seen me do this before. I had started celebrating language again. Baroque sentence structure. Words you can't even find in the New York Times any more, maybe in an Austen novel. You know how I do, you've been riding dirty with me before. It was fun to read, and it had been fun to write once I thought about it. I had more than one person remark about this phenomenon in the last story I finished.
This friend is wikkid smart and I'm pretty sure I'm not talking over his head. I *hope* I'm not making him work too hard to read it, because I'm asking for his frickin' help.
The actual question part: Does writing like that in a situation that does not require it (eg a Wodehouse short story or something) make me a pretentious git?