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[Anonymous No.13520713]

Is this what you call purple prose?

[Anonymous No.13520718]

>>13520713
>4000x2698

[Anonymous No.13520722]

>>13520713
How to take a screenshot by Anonymous

[Anonymous No.13520724]

holy.....I want more

[Anonymous No.13520730]

Maybe the first three sentences in the second paragraph.

[Anonymous No.13520742]

>>13520713
She has a good sentiment, but the way she writes it just makes me feel embarrassed for her. Also, it's not exactly a novel concept is it? Some people like material wealth over the more abstract intellect pursuits...

[Anonymous No.13520752]

>>13520742
It is a he. No, it was written by him in a women-majority facebook group, so you can guess how that would affect his writing.

[Anonymous No.13520779]

>>13520713
This is.

[Anonymous No.13520786]

>>13520779
>>13520713
Why is purple prose mostly seen to be used from non-English speakers?

[Anonymous No.13520791]

>>13520779
Fuck sake. Painful.

[Anonymous No.13520794]

>>13520779
>>13520713
Why is purple prose mostly seen to be used by non-English speakers?

[Anonymous No.13520797]

>>13520786
To be fair, at least with non-English speakers it sort of makes sense. I actually find it far less gratuitous when it comes from a non-native speaker since they at least have a good vocabulary and can express themselves in a quite sophisticated way. They're just overdoing it. It's the fuckwit native tryhards that get me.

[Anonymous No.13520813]

>>13520794
Third world English. You ever deal with recruitment?
>dear Sir or madam who may be concerned with the recruitment of new employees, kindly please allow me to draw your attention to this my humble application
I had to do some work with the Indian embassy once, and you had to draft every fucking email in that kind of language otherwise they wouldn't take it seriously.

[Anonymous No.13520822]

>>13520813
How would you write that sentence in a native-English country?

[Anonymous No.13520838]

>>13520822
Depends on the position, but 'Dear Sir/Madam, please find enclosed my application' would be better. You can always tell third worlders from this overly ornate prose style. In my profession it's only Indians and Nigerians who write like that, maybe it's a colonial hangover where they were taught that was the best way to write and never updated the system

[Anonymous No.13520851]

Lmao what a dumb bich get a job

[Anonymous No.13520854]

>>13520838
It's something I also have noticed as a French, people from West Africa who have lived some time in France often use an overyl formal French with old ways of phrasing. On top of that many of them are employed in the administration in jobs that require some kind of decorum.

>tfw Africans are better at being French than you

[Anonymous No.13520877]

>>13520779
>tfw know all these words

[Anonymous No.13521059]

>>13520779
this reads like it was written by a bot