[rant.meta]
Mar. 21st, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxIf I'm ranting on my LiveJournal, it's not aimed at anyone specific (with possible exception of highly visible public figures that I only know of, and don't personally know).
If I'm ranting, I'm also knowingly not taking into account other people's potential perspectives on the matter (if it were, it wouldn't be a rant according to my definition of 'rant').
Yeah. That.
(Incidentally, I will continue to attempt to remember to read/follow evites; they are just nearly certain to make me feel more or less how I felt in my previous post, at least as long as I'm thinking about them. I usually don't _say_ anything, but there was the most fascinating juxtaposition of having one arrive in my INBOX at the exact same time as answering an LJ poll on how I feel about them. I was already in a verbal mental state about them, so was in the right mindset to express my reaction to them, rather than simply have it and move on)
If I'm ranting, I'm also knowingly not taking into account other people's potential perspectives on the matter (if it were, it wouldn't be a rant according to my definition of 'rant').
Yeah. That.
(Incidentally, I will continue to attempt to remember to read/follow evites; they are just nearly certain to make me feel more or less how I felt in my previous post, at least as long as I'm thinking about them. I usually don't _say_ anything, but there was the most fascinating juxtaposition of having one arrive in my INBOX at the exact same time as answering an LJ poll on how I feel about them. I was already in a verbal mental state about them, so was in the right mindset to express my reaction to them, rather than simply have it and move on)
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Date: 2005-03-21 11:16 pm (UTC)Okay. A [rant.rant] might be a rant about rants, such as "Why is it that rants seem to inspire bad grammar?" Whereas [rant.meta] would be a rant about the act of ranting. For example, "ranting is a fruitless endeavor."
How's that? :)