On 9/7/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Most people are, by definition, average readers, and so I think they literally can't tell the difference between a mediocre article and a great one.
Definitely. Somebody could show me their "prose" and I'll probably say "looks better than anything I could write", then give some characteristically bad advice and count how many of the FA people insist that it thoroughly sucks.
—C.W.