It depends on the purpose of the piece and the intended audience, of course, but quite often complex prose indicates precisely the opposite of complex thought. If you're on top of your subject, you can boil it down to the essentials and paraphrase with gay abandon. If you're feeling a bit unsure, it's much safer just to memorise and regurgitate.

And on the radio, of course, complex prose is a tool for just not answering the question which has been asked.

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Yes, since I wrote that I read a comment by Einstein 'If you understand a subject you can explain it to anyone, if you can only explain it to your colleagues then you don't really understand it'.

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I feel pretty silly. I tried to do it following your directions but it didn't pull anything up. It said 0% fr all of them. Am I doing something wrong?

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That's strange. I am just trying some different livejournals and some work and some don't. It must be something to do with the formatting of the text content in different journal styles. I know this facility can't read PDFs so there are probably other text formats that fox it.

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Darn. I really wanted to find out.

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It's your privacy settings—it won't work if you have "Minimize my journal's inclusion in search engine results" checked. I had the same problem. I unchecked it this morning, but I don't know how long it'll take for the Google crawler to pick up my LJ.

Here's the settings page: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=privacy

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clever

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Ha, my work blog is 100% intermediate! I am consistent!

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Aye, I suppose work writing has to be of a type, you can't veer off into the vernacular.

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