50 WORDS

Mean, Medium, and Mode — in Moderation

Thrifty Words… Fifty Word Challenge #39: Moderation

A Moderately Adequate Image by Author — [honestly — I did a little research and suddenly wrote the script and it was 50 WORDS!]

Don’t worry — I don’t even know what my title means.

I suppose it’s a gut feeling — if Medium is in the middle and that implies moderation then moderation is the mode.

Don’t you hate statistics?

Well, see, Medium is American and that’s an extreme, neither a mean nor a mode.

Lagom är bäst. It means, literally, “The right amount is best”, and is also translated as “Enough is as good as a feast”, or as “There is virtue in moderation.” (Wikipedia, linked at “Lagom.”)

I hope that clears things up.

This is one of my silliest submissions. What happened was the usual: I looked up the word “moderation,” then also looked up “moderately” in case it gave me any ideas. Then I went wacky and my article was inspired by this:

Media, Medium, and Mediums: How to Choose the Right Word

Then I went wild with this one:

The Difference Between Mild, Medium, Sharp, and Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheeses

Maybe if Medium treated me better I’d write more seriously.
Nah…

Ooh, that thought chills me to the core. Serious writing implies some moderation. But I don’t find Medium writers to be the least bit moderate. Especially those who write and edit at The Bad Influence.

Let’s take a look. Yeah, here’s one I really liked, and it’s also shocking:

Darwin’s Law

Here’s an article on a topic I didn’t have the wit or courage to tackle. It has some interesting links within, including a link to a writer who did manage to write about Racism in Feminism:

The Right to Not Write

And here’s the instigator’s article that led to my silly article:

The Purple Between Red and Blue

This was fun. I hope you enjoyed reading — either my writing or from one of those links.
…FRED