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Re: Illiterate Strikes Again!
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2013, 02:52:57 pm »
Literacy seems to have a changed meaning for FH. If you look up Literate in a dictionary, it doesn't say that it means typing in complex, drawn out paragraphs. A person's level of Literacy describes how well they can know and use the english(or other) language. Here's two examples:

>The charcoal wolf sauntered through the dense woodland, pressing his paw pads against the chilled winter earth.

>The black wolf walked through the cold woods.

Both are literate, but the first is more pleasurable to read. The adjectives and descriptions simply make the sentence come alive. They both say the same thing though, that a black wolf is walking in the woods. The second is simpler, and easier to type and think about. The first is descriptive, but requires a bit more thought. I found that people generally post longer, more descriptive posts in mapped RPs, and do short, abbreviated posts in public maps since the chat can fly by so quickly. If there was a paragraph post in Bonfire for example, the chat would swallow it before the people reading it could get halfway through.