09-07-2014, 10:56 AM
Ray,
academicians will love you, there is nothing they like better than to quantify things.
In Sumer there were originality 40 ambiguities, but while in Egypt, a Nile crocodile manages to eat four of them before they awake. So then there was only 36 ambiguities, and at least half of them are insane. This leaves 18 ambiguities, and half of them will not talk to the other half because they disapprove of the English language as it in itself is one big ambiguity and so they would be put in the place of being lessor ambiguities. So they have all gone south. Of the 8 that agreed to work with the English language, 5 are so silly one cannot contain them long enough to use them. This leaves only 3 in the English language:
the intentional and unintentional, which always leads to confusion. There is a third, but I can't call it to mind just now.
"Is that a foot?"
"No, that's a nail"
"It looks exactly like a foot to me!"
"You realize that I'm not talking about a measurement?"
"Yes, I knew that...oh wait, you are referring to those things that are at the end of the toes."
"So you see that it is a nail and not a foot?"
"Of course, of course, I just needed my perception cleaned."
"I usually recommend alcohol wipes for that."
"Well on that we will have to disagree, I prefer to take mine orally."
"Oh sure, but I thought you were under the age?"
No, I'm not under the age, I don't even know what an "age" is to get under it."
"Uh huh, I think you need to drink more."
"Well I would certainly agree with that. By the way do you know about ambiguities?"
"I know one."
"Which one is it."
"The grammatical ambiguity."
"What's that?"
"What's that lying in the road a head?"
"Wha, I dun get it."
"Just keep drinking and you'll either get it, or quit caring. Oh before you trundle off,
there is the comedic ambiguity."
"Waz dat?"
"Where a joke depends on ambiguity to be funny, like the "Smith" joke in Mary Poppins."
"Whadat?"
"It goes like this:
I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
Oh yeah, what is the name of his other leg?"
"Idon getit"
"Oh well you are probably to young to know about Mary Poppins,
but I'm sure you will do well."
"Thank you." (exit stage left)
Oh, I forgot to tell him about sarcastic ambiguity."
academicians will love you, there is nothing they like better than to quantify things.
In Sumer there were originality 40 ambiguities, but while in Egypt, a Nile crocodile manages to eat four of them before they awake. So then there was only 36 ambiguities, and at least half of them are insane. This leaves 18 ambiguities, and half of them will not talk to the other half because they disapprove of the English language as it in itself is one big ambiguity and so they would be put in the place of being lessor ambiguities. So they have all gone south. Of the 8 that agreed to work with the English language, 5 are so silly one cannot contain them long enough to use them. This leaves only 3 in the English language:
the intentional and unintentional, which always leads to confusion. There is a third, but I can't call it to mind just now.
"Is that a foot?"
"No, that's a nail"
"It looks exactly like a foot to me!"
"You realize that I'm not talking about a measurement?"
"Yes, I knew that...oh wait, you are referring to those things that are at the end of the toes."
"So you see that it is a nail and not a foot?"
"Of course, of course, I just needed my perception cleaned."
"I usually recommend alcohol wipes for that."
"Well on that we will have to disagree, I prefer to take mine orally."
"Oh sure, but I thought you were under the age?"
No, I'm not under the age, I don't even know what an "age" is to get under it."
"Uh huh, I think you need to drink more."
"Well I would certainly agree with that. By the way do you know about ambiguities?"
"I know one."
"Which one is it."
"The grammatical ambiguity."
"What's that?"
"What's that lying in the road a head?"
"Wha, I dun get it."
"Just keep drinking and you'll either get it, or quit caring. Oh before you trundle off,
there is the comedic ambiguity."
"Waz dat?"
"Where a joke depends on ambiguity to be funny, like the "Smith" joke in Mary Poppins."
"Whadat?"
"It goes like this:
I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
Oh yeah, what is the name of his other leg?"
"Idon getit"
"Oh well you are probably to young to know about Mary Poppins,
but I'm sure you will do well."
"Thank you." (exit stage left)
Oh, I forgot to tell him about sarcastic ambiguity."
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.