![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
On the issues of wording and the inadequacy of language.
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'.
'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'.