Everyone putes admiration of ciples of the crowd and fears being tinct. But we rarely cern, often cuss and tend to play and close the fact that our self-esteem is mantled by the aster of being counted for our work and seen as heveled. We are mayed by those who dain and are gusted by us. I can’t pel this notion, but I know these are the things that make us gruntled and I am turbed by those who tort their appreciation of others.
As noted in previous posts, I see things differently, noting
patterns in words and inconsistencies in language or thinking. One form of this [disorder?] that I face
daily is with prefixes. As seen above,
taking the prefix “dis-“ off to create an opposite word (something that works
with disenfranchise, disagree, disharmony…) does not always work (such as a ciple being one who does not follow or aster being a positive event), though it
often makes some cool sounding words. If
the “dis” is not really distinct, it really fails (hrag = a cloth used to apply
food scraps to dinnerware).
I also tend to define the prefix “un-“ to mean reverse a
process (undo, unwrap, untie, unwind and unstitch are all good examples). But this is not always proper. Unsweetened tea COULD be tea that had sugar
removed from it, but is probably not; in some instances, the present tense
implies reversing (unwrap), but the past tense is as likely or more so to be
the latter definition (unwrapped).
That’s really all I have to say for now on the subject,
other than to encourage the reader to think up some cool or funny “un-dis”
words and to keep an ear out for “unfinished wood”, “uncooked meat” and “unchanging
conditions” (the last being ironic if you think of it in the right way… maybe
tilt your head to the right and angle the eyes
upward to shift the thoughts slightly out of their traditional places).
Post Script 20140128: I was listening to one of the radio morning shows and heard the disclaimer about a phone call being "prerecorded", which reminded me of the great George Carlin routines about the english language (the two I recall specifically were in regards to airline announcements and prefixes, particularly "pre-"). Of course it was prerecorded - postrecording is impossible!
Another recent instance of my troubles with the way things are said or written is the ambiguous (in my mind, at least) use of the symbol "-" for both subtraction and indication of range:
Of course, we all know this indicates a minimum of 7" and maximum of 10" forecast for the darker shade of purple. But my mind instantly jumps to -3" of snow. You might think this is a minor concern (or no concern at all), but I ask you to place yourself in my mind (if you dare) and consider the possible meanings of a negative snowfall.
Don't just stop with having some accumulation already on the ground and 3" of it heading back up toward the sky. Keep pondering this until you have a satisfactory explanation. Go through snow somehow displacing the ground 3" deep and 3" of anti-snow, made of two anti-hydrogen (an anti-proton and positron) and one anti-oxygen atom frozen (and imagine the anti-snowman coming in contact with Frosty and annihilating each other, releasing pure energy). Keep going until you are ready to run for Congress, just so you can push a Constitutional amendment mandating all ranges be shown as mathematical inequalities (e.g., the snow forecast above could be labeled 7" < ❅ < 10").
On a somewhat related tangent, it took me quite a while to figure out the Bad Company's album, "10 from 6" referred to 10 of their greatest hits from 6 of their albums and had nothing to do with negative 4.
Post Script 20140128: I was listening to one of the radio morning shows and heard the disclaimer about a phone call being "prerecorded", which reminded me of the great George Carlin routines about the english language (the two I recall specifically were in regards to airline announcements and prefixes, particularly "pre-"). Of course it was prerecorded - postrecording is impossible!
Another recent instance of my troubles with the way things are said or written is the ambiguous (in my mind, at least) use of the symbol "-" for both subtraction and indication of range:
Of course, we all know this indicates a minimum of 7" and maximum of 10" forecast for the darker shade of purple. But my mind instantly jumps to -3" of snow. You might think this is a minor concern (or no concern at all), but I ask you to place yourself in my mind (if you dare) and consider the possible meanings of a negative snowfall.
Don't just stop with having some accumulation already on the ground and 3" of it heading back up toward the sky. Keep pondering this until you have a satisfactory explanation. Go through snow somehow displacing the ground 3" deep and 3" of anti-snow, made of two anti-hydrogen (an anti-proton and positron) and one anti-oxygen atom frozen (and imagine the anti-snowman coming in contact with Frosty and annihilating each other, releasing pure energy). Keep going until you are ready to run for Congress, just so you can push a Constitutional amendment mandating all ranges be shown as mathematical inequalities (e.g., the snow forecast above could be labeled 7" < ❅ < 10").
On a somewhat related tangent, it took me quite a while to figure out the Bad Company's album, "10 from 6" referred to 10 of their greatest hits from 6 of their albums and had nothing to do with negative 4.
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