Wooden Language Yesterday Meaningful Today

It may have sounded hollow, artificial, colorless - yesterday, but when RunningSixYearsBehind, not so ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20131001.20131116

Because something may be proposed or put forth as possible or workable, yet not yet implemented, tagging it as "WoodenLanguage" may not really apply when time has passed. Many times it may become WhatItWantsToBe by hard-work and by persistence, thereby solid, workable and useful.

Because one can not at a moment of time put forth a finished blueprint or model as to how or what something may be or become, does not remove it from consideration, given enough time and work! This is true of much so-called VaporWare things. Sometimes another may see a way to do it and they pick up the idea or notion, and MakeItSo.

Speculation about the future can be marvellously well-written and clear, and documentation of RunningSixYearsBehind can suffer from WoodenLanguage. WoodenLanguage is simply a colourful synonym for "bad writing", particularly bad writing that's overly verbose, opaque, bureaucratic, or vague. It has nothing to do with whether we're speculating about the future or documenting the past.

It is encouraging to use this term in a critical observation, when it is meant to bring about good effects. The writing about something using words familiar to the writer and containing words which may have been poorly put together and not finalized, should not detract from the fact that a new writer has attempted expression in an open and freely editable space. It is important that a critic has taken time to notice and comment about it. Perhaps the critic could also make comments leading towards dialogue about the subject.

It is possible that what an expert has thought to be wooden language expressed by a novice in times past that has included insight, however poorly expressed, as to what something may become or may happen, and when it does, gives one pause to think about it.

My observations may be wrong, but I can't help making them. -- DonaldNoyes.20131125

For some reason, I am thinking about a talented, and even gifted individual who spends hours launching angry birds at structures in an attempt to bring them down upon their inhabitants, using a smart-socially-capable-device, as being ironic.

It was said by FrankKlucznik on his HomePage (I am RunningSixYearsBehind on this comment made in 2006)

Sharing our individual body of knowledge and experiences is an effective way of helping others, and it appears Wiki provides a great conduit for just that purpose.

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