Letter to the LIVE Staff

Nope, sorry when I said "you two" I meant you two since I was responding to two different people in that post. Or did you not read fully though it? Also when you quote me I would appreciate it if you would refrain from doing so incorrectly.
Have a nice day.

I've found, during my perusing of internet forums, that people who are well-spoken are usually disliked by the uneducated. Just because someone uses words not commonly heard in everyday speech doesn't mean they spent hours with a thesaurus trying to confuse others. Believe it or not, some people just know those words and their meanings. There are far better things to get angry about, if that's what you want to do, than someone using words with more than three syllables. You tell Amor to "get a life," but you're the one talking trash on the internet.

Great googly moogly. Well this isn't the response I thought I'd get but hey, such is life. Ok, DR watchdog I will address your response first. I simply wished to compliment and congratulate some dear friends for some wonderful work since I have an inkling, albeit small of the blood sweat and tears that went into this edition. Also I do have a life. In fact I average 12+ days of work. It takes me less that 10mins to hammer out most of my posts. If it takes you 6+ hours to type out a post thereby making you think others are wasting their lives away that's a perceptual problem on your part and neither mine nor anyone elses problem other than yours.

In addition, you seem to be upset and I can only assume that it's because I must have used something larger than a one syllable word thereby forcing you to look it up. That's a personal problem with your education and not mine. Basically any paper cuts from said Thesaurus's or carpal tunnel from looking words up on the internet are for you to deal with so quit whining. To your comment that I am "FULL OF IT". I simply state that which I feel. I usually tone down my use of the vernacular so that I don't get the responses that I got from you but this message wasn't for you although it was simply posted publicly so sorry if you believed that I intended you two to deciper it. Those whom it was intended for [who happen to be learned journalists] know me and know the actual intelligence level I may or may not have. But don't worry the next time I have something nice to say to the LIVE Staff I will just email it to them directly thusly avoiding offending your finely honed sensibilities since I can't have your learning a new word or two on my conscience. Is that good enough for you?

Now that being said if like mine your intelligence level equates to your posting I have some advice. Most people stopped eating glue in 1st grade and it's time you stopped as it's causing obvious damage.

As for justathought, it's possible that you have the same problem and maybe the two of you can get together and play scrabble to learn a few new words just stay away from the glue.

P.S. that means post script for the both of you, [ to save you the trouble of looking it up] it would be nice if you would stop trying to drag down the intelligence of our community with your complaints and educate yourself and other to rise above the general malaise of mediocrity.
And since I'm so nice here you go;
mediocrity (n.) The state or quality of being mediocre.
mediocrity (n.) Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.
mediocrity (n.) One that displays mediocre qualities
mediocre (adj.) Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary

What amazes me even more is how some people see vocabulary and intelligence as mutually exclusive, and take the cheap shots in complete anonymity.  Thanks for the warm compliments, Patriae.  We know we have a readership for what we strive to do, and make no apologies for it. 

Bill Sontag
Feature Writer
Southwest Texas LIVE!