A good few months ago c58-Lexx asked me if I was interested in doing a regular column for cyberfight.com because they were looking for people who could speak good English. My first thought and also my first question was "Well.. What would you like me to write about?" to which he replied "Anything!". That’s quite a broad suggestion and it’s taken me all this time, due to other commitments, to actually put 'fingers to keyboard' and begin typing.
    You'd think after a period of time like that I'd maybe have put at least some thought into selecting an interesting topic, but.. I haven't! So I'm pretty much 'freestyling' and just hoping that what I'm writing won't come across as a contrived attempt to gain 'cyber popularity'.
    A lot of the stuff I read on esreality and other such sites these days just spells out "intellectual masturbation" to me, the authors perhaps deep down start with something heartfelt that they want to share, but then they start dressing it up with fancy words and lots of grammar which, for me, can altogether spoil what he or she was trying to say in the first place.
    I don't really see the value in being able to string together ten or twenty large words that a lot of people may or may not be able to understand just to say something simple. I'm no great writer, as you probably already noticed (if you got this far) but I'm pretty sure I could do the same given a little thought.
    Why would I want to? If I can get the message across quickly and without needing to consult a thesaurus or a dictionary. Why make it more complicated than it has to be? It's obvious that fancy writing has its place, for example in novels, poetry etc. I would hate to read things like that if they were deliberately "kiddie-friendly" with no words with more than two or three syllables. It would be very dull to say the least and would take away a lot of the beauty.
    Written language can be stunning, but why put so much effort into a stupid thing like replying to a posted demo or a 'flame'. It seems these days that even the flamers need a degree in English or they're immediately shot down and made to look stupid. You can't insult someone without using the correct grammar. I mean, come on. Get real!
    The main reason I think is that people just like to look superior, and therefore try to intellectualize everything. This maybe gives them a bit of an ego boost knowing that they, onscreen, appear more intelligent and therefore somehow more important or as I said before, superior.                       
    Anyway, I'm contradicting myself here by rambling on and on, when all I really wanted to say was that large lines of text to get a simple message accross aren't needed. And that I find people who strike at every opportunity to promote the fact that they indeed attended university and have a degree in writing or whatever, extremely insecure, or just arrogant... twats.    

    This is the first time I've done this, so forgive me if its not a masterpeice. It is what it is, a short peice of writing which you can agree or disagree with and perhaps comment on. Its my first column.

-astz!