Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Elon Musk is set to come out this fall, repeated his narrative about the Tesla CEO as a kind of flawed genius.

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    1 year ago

    As a non native speaker i will just say that “having a feel for emotions” sounds like shit english to me and i dont have high hopes for books written by people that use that phrase.

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        1 year ago

        So you would also enjoy such gems as dont have taste for palatableness or an comprehension for cognizance? Really dont know if my grip of the language is better or worse than yours. Feel for emotions is about as smooth as two lawnchairs chained together being thrown down a flight of stairs and could be repaced by “lacks empathy” or just “is a horrrible cunt” or has no mood for the feeling of emotions and vibes as you like to put it.

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          1 year ago

          I’m not sure what you mean by your comment, but I was just making a joke about how dumb people’s language on social media is these days

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            1 year ago

            Well i thought you meant it as a critizism of my remark because of that i elaborated:

            having a feel for emotions taste for palatableness comprehension for cognizance

            is essentially describing a noun with the verb of the same meaning and unnecessary blathering you could just say

            has empathy has refined taste is intelligent

            and that is why i think the author of the autobiography probably is a bad writer.

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      1 year ago

      Well, the biographer is Walter isaacson and I doubt you’re going to find many people more qualified to write a biography than him.