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Posted by dorayme on 02/18/07 20:24
In article <53r6mrF1tlmj5U1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> >
> > I
> > am not saying it is not a good thing to practice and improve,
> > especially if it is an activity someone enjoys, just that what
> > you said was over optimistic.
>
> Some innate talent is always a plus, of course, and as with anything
> else I suppose there are some people will never "get it". So I'll revise
> my belief slightly: with enough study and practice, just about anyone
> can become skilled in CSS. It will just take longer for some than
> others. It still requires effort, regardless.
OK, let me just again add a rider to the "skilled". Skilled in a
workmanlike way is often possible. But there is something else, I
am not sure if I am getting this idea across: touch, mastery, a
bit of elegance. If you want a stark quite closely related
analogy, listen to a very industrious indefatigable taker of
piano lessons for 20 years who was not born with a certain
natural sense of touch. Compare it with someone who has it but
has had nowhere near the experience. The latter might be very
imperfect but has the ability to bring a lump in the throat in
certain passages of a sensitive listener. It is not a matter of
magic or anything, it is plain to see all around us in every
field, including the one that is the subject of this ng.
It all started out well before the competition on the plains of
Africa under the eye of a most unjust god.
Before all the "all men are born equal" crowd and sympathisers
get going, please remember I have drawn few implications from all
this. Don't put ones in my mouth, you are likely to be wrong.
--
dorayme
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