Talking about "talk about"

There seems to be a need to set up and defend extreme positions on this topic. No gray area. No room for exceptions. My way or the highway. Life is not always that way, and neither is "talk about."

JD
Apparent bullshitter

 

Talk about that gray area, JD.

 

Some people are uncomfortable with direct questions. Yet we still ask them.

 

To address something earlier: I find it somewhat laughable that we'd change our questioning tactics because people are watching on TV.

 

I'd go just the opposite way with this, fewer people brutalize simple, concise English more than academics.

 

If the idea is to get a guy to talk about something, why is it such a sin to ask him to talk about something? Seriously.

It's lazy? So is using a micro-recorder instead of a note pad. So is using a laptop instead of a typewriter and telecopier.

If it gets the job done better and more quickly, why waste energy whining about it?

"Talk about" works a hell of a lot better than twisting things up to make sure it's in the form of a question that gets a shitty answer. You're supposed to be doing this job for the readers, not to prove what a great fucking question-asker you are.

 

And if you get a one-word answer of "Yes," do you think you've done your job better than the guy who comes along three minutes later and says "Talk about ... " and gives his readers a fantastic quote from the same guy you got nearly nothing from?

 

shotglass, I would talk about it, but you were rude to me, telling me to talk about it. If you had asked a question, a good question, I'd have been happy to answer. Sorry, dude.

 

Honestly, I dislike your example more than the original. I've asked both many times, and the either-or question almost inevitably produces blather. I take no issue with talk about questions.

 

And to think I'd been warned just hours previously.