Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
CYA - well CMA, actually. I wasn't sure if akshully I knew what "parsimonious" meant.
No sir - the last thing I need. My "Aunt Dot" is still pissed over the whole Sherman's burning of Atlanta. Seems it's my fault, and all. 'Cause I was born in the "Nawth".
Noun 1. poetic license - license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work licence, license - freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Well Larry, the beauty of "your language" is that (if you do manage to mispell a word) within a year it will appear in Websters.
For some reason you guys thought (it seems to be changing now) that it was easier to change the language than to properly educate your children. What does kind of statement do you think *that* made to the world? :-0
FWIW, the reason I create material things to the absolute best of my ability is because 99% of my blood relations are crazier than s**t-house rats. This means that to be a responsible citizen, I cannot (in good faith) have children- whether I would like them or not, (and I would like them, but remember the old saying- "Bad Blood Will Out") The wife agrees with this after meeting the in-laws and my siblings, so I build to leave a legacy to future generations that would otherwise be fulfilled via progeny. Hell, the stuff I make may
*never* be worthy of a museum galley- but that's no reason not to try. I've discussed this at length with my wife, and we've come to the understanding that children are a "get out of production free" card of sorts, and as such, we each feel the drive to create items of quality to reflect our individual senses of life for posterity since we will not be providing a future generation to carry on our values. I *know* a lot of folks disagree with this viewpoint, but the whole "nature" V. "nurture" debate has never been satisfacturally resolved for me, and I cannot bear the idea of adding parasites to our already laden societies.
Sometimes the whole thing makes me a little sad, but then I go make something beautiful (at least to me,) and the world seems ok again for a little while. Is there any other reason to build?
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:53:12 GMT, the inscrutable Groggy spake:
I'm surprised that "truley" hasn't appeared there yet. All the words I had trouble with as a kid are coming out misspelled in the new dictionaries. It's truly sick. "Truely" if you believe the newest one. It's an Anglo-Canucki plot, I tell ya!
It sucks to live in a revisionist society up here. How is it in a disarmed society down there?
None needed for this round.
--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --
OK, that does it, kangaroo-breath. You can call me names, but when you mention blunt and rusty and my tools in the same sentence ...
You know, that previous sentence didn't come out quite like I expected.
You too, Greg. I usually just lurk these days, and watch for an interesting subject or a poster I enjoy reading. Between all the political bullcrap and the trolls (is alt.syntax.tactical still around?), there just hasn't been a whole lot worth reading these days.
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