On the issues of wording and the inadequacy of language.

[ncc1701_d]

I was reading through some of my comments on previous entries and noticed on one I had put

'Scars are strangely attractive - on a good looking person anyway' or words to that effect. And then I cringed.

The problem with writing down a train of thought is that words don't actually express accurately what's going on in my mind. It was the 'good looking person' bit that made me cringe when I re-read it.

It sounds terribly shallow and biased when read at face value - which is what someone who is not me will do, because they're not me. The problem is, my definition of a good looking person, whilst being enormously subjective anyway, is not necessarily attributed to what is standardly seen as good looking or even connected to looks at all.

Unfortunately I don't think there is a word in existence (in English anyway) that accurate covers my meaning of 'good looking'.

Comments

[nijibug]

"Attractive" may be the better word here, since it's easier to assume that what you find attractive may not be attractive to others...?

[ncc1701_d]

It's closer, but not quite. And in the original sentence it would have sounded clunky.

Not tha I'm obsessive about my use of language or anything...:]

[ncc1701_d]

*that

I'm clearly not osessive about typing correctly.